The sonata in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Mus 20, H. 11, MS 261 is hastily copied, but includes one quirky passage where the composer changes clef for one beat and writes four impossibly high notes (B6 CDE7). These do not fit with the bass line and are outside the normal range of any of the usual melody instruments of the day. Editor Klaus Hofmann suggests that Handel may have been playing a joke on the soloist; if read in alto clef, a much more logical ABCD 2 emerges, which actually works with the bass.

Handel does not specify the solo instrument. It fits recorder (or transverse flute) beautifully, as well as violin. Hofmann also provides a version transposed down to F.