A fingering guide displaying apparatus is to guide a player or a learner how
to
finger wind musical instruments in playing. As most of wind musical instruments
are transposing instruments, the fingering patterns are indicated for the respective
notes on the music scores notated in the respective tonalities which are unique
to the respective instruments. The apparatus stores a fingering pattern database
representing fingering patterns for the respective available notes of various transposing
instruments in the respective instrument tonalities, and a transposition value
database representing, for each of the instrument tonalities, the pitch difference
between the instrument tonality and the reference tonality. When music playing
data expressed in the reference tonality are used for playing a transposing instrument,
the playing data are converted to express the notes in the instrument tonality
using the pitch difference value, and fingering patterns are also indicated in
the instrument tonality.