Piccolo Small Flute

Piccolo is a small flute. It is sometime also knows as piccolo. Its name in Italian is flauto piccolo which also mean a small flute. The piccolo is often made up of silver or wood, it is mare or less like a flute, but only thing is that is much smaller in comparison. There is also a pitch difference between the flute and the Piccolo. The Piccolo has a higher pitch than that of a flute.

The music for the Piccolo is written on one octave lower than the concert pitch. The music sound is an octave higher than the flute as it is half the size of the flute. The fingering on the piccolo is similar to that of the flute. There are other alternate fingerings which may also be used to tune the individual pitches, as many are consistently out of tune.

Piccolo like any other flute is more often pitched in the key of C, one octave above the concert flute which makes it like a sopranino flute. There is also a standard C Piccolo, there is also a Piccolo pitched in Db this is often used in the bands. There is another key A-flat which is quite rarely used outside the Italian marching bands. It is played from D5 to B7-flat.

The Piccolo which is a transverse flute was development in the late 18th century. It is about 33 cm long and its range is nearly three octaves, which reaches the highest pitch in the modern orchestra. It is horizontally played and is a small transverse flute of conical or cylindrical bore, fitted with Boehm-system key work. Its sound is quite bright which makes it easily heard, even in thickly scored orchestral passages.

The Piccolo is the highest pitched woodwind instrument of orchestras and military bands. There are different sources of sound as three branches of the woodwind family are used. There are a lot of similarities though a lot of difference between flute and Piccolo. It is the high pitch, the use of silver and the size which makes the flute and Piccolo quite different from each other.

In Piccolo the vibrations is started when the sir is blown across the top of the instrument, across a single reed, or across two reeds. There are reeds are very small pieces of cane. When air is blown between the reed and the mouthpiece it creates a vibration against the mouthpiece. A single reed is clamped to a mouthpiece at the top of the instrument. When two reeds are tied up together it is known as double reed. Dsokids

Piccolo Small Flute