Piccolo anyone?

[x Outside in x]

Anythough Im going deaf i cant help but love it😉

[x_shmoothshailing_x]

hehe that's cool, im an Eb clarinet player smile you either know how to play it really well.. or really badly lol. of course i know how to play really well <3 i absolutely love playing along with the flutes and the pic! although the tuning issues vary, but in the end we get it! blaugh

[AkaTsuki-chan]

How do you get two piccolos in tune?


Shoot one! rofl





Piccolo is so much fun. Do you have your own, or are you using your school's? After a while, the 'oh no, I'm going deaf!' thing will stop, but there are musician's earplugs that you can invest in if you're interested.

Have you had to learn the Stars and Stripes Forever solo yet? It's one of those pieces of rep. that all piccoloists are practically required to know.

[fluffehkitteh]

Most flute players I know hate piccolo, so I willingly took it up.
My poor baby is a really nasty one to tune though. When anyone else tries to play it they complain about the tuning (Apparently it's loyal since it works for me). I'm waiting for a good excuse to invest in a new one.

Eventually you do get used to the sound, but I would suggest ear plugs. You don't have to get the fancy ones. Regular earphones you can buy from drugstores/hardware stores help as well. Just not quite as good (for obvious reasons)

[x Outside in x]

Yeah, right now Im playing on the schools pic. But implanning to get my own once I get to college which is in a year, so Im pretty excited!

[AkaTsuki-chan]

Sweet. Where do you stand on the metal vs. wood issue? I played my school's picc for a while until I got my own. The school's was a crappy metal one (not that metal ones are crappy, this one was actually just poor quality) and mine is a wooden Gemeinhardt (wooden mouthpiece too.)

A lot of people say the wooden mouthpieces are harder to play, because they're so different from a flute's mouthpiece, but I found the tone quality was much warmer than the metal.

[x Outside in x]

Im actually planning on getting a wooden one for that reason, because the one I have now is a crappy metal one the tone quality sucks and Im pretty sick of it. So Im planning on getting a new one, preferably wood smile

[fluffehkitteh]

Metal piccolos are more temperamental with things such as temperature changes and weather etc.
They tend to sound more shrill as well.
But they are tame-able. Personally I can't afford a new piccolo at the moment, and mine is a metal picc. When I can afford it I will be getting a wooden one, but for the mean time the metal one suits me just fine. I've never had a director have a problem with it. =).

From what I've heard though, most people play on wooden ones. Or resin.

[luna spirit12]

Well right now i play the flute but i do plan to get a piccolo because they are cute and i rally want to [play that super duper high C...lol. whee My friend plays the piccolo though and my music teacher would sometimes tell her to play the flute for certain songs because the piccolo is just too high for some songs. Also, she says that she got use to playing the piccolo that lifting the flute is really heavy and the lip shape is way more loose than the piccolo! 3nodding But ima still play it! heart

[Junai Bokunenjin]

I'd suggest earplugs.
There was a girl I knew a long time ago that had to be hospitalized because she offset the fluid balance in her ears because she practiced for about an hour and a half on her piccolo.

I remember having the 1st piccolo part for Gustav Holst's "Uranus".
Brutal part.
Hours of practice to get those runs right.

I am not a weed!