What is Piccolo?

Piccolo is the Woodwind tool most related to the flute. However, the range of Piccolo is usually an octave above the range of most flutes. This gives Piccolo a very bright but often steep tone that is most effective when it is used moderately. Many Piccolo players start like flautists because the fingers are practically the same and the flute tone is easier to handle. It is not unusual to find only a handful of piccolos throughout the flute part.

If you accidentally hear pikcolo during a show or other external event, it is likely that it is made completely from metal. The metal piccolo is resistant enough to survive the abuse of beginners or cold environments, but the tone is often penetrating or drinks. Professional Piccolo players often choose wood models, although the mouthpiece section can still be metal. Wooden piccolo generally has a fine tone, although players often consider it necessary to use alternative fingers to maintain the right. Piccolos share the same reputation as Scottish bagpipes - no two are never in perfectsummer melody.

Because Piccolo can cut even the most difficult orchestral sound, its use in the composition is generally limited to occasional solos or decorative coloring behind other woods. Perhaps the most famous use of Piccolo occurs in the march and stripes and stripes of John Philip Sousa forever . At the end of the piece you can hear several piccolos playing against the brass section filled with a trill. This is a common topic for Piccolo. To sound the best in performance, Piccolo must often be played very loud. Special Zátkovs are sometimes provided for tests.

This does not mean that Piccolo is always doomed to play ornamental countermeasures or fillings, because there is some music for Piccolo and there are accompanied. The problem is so much that was written at the end of the 19th and early 20th century, the time considered the golden age of Piccolos. Type of piccol used in these compositions, tuned to D-Flat,is no longer produced. Most of the piccolos produced today are tuned to C. To adapt to the octave series Piccolo, but most of the music is written about octave lower. This means a generous number of lines of the book, but the fluuutists playing Piccolo should still be able to easily read their scores.