Piccolo
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 | When it comes to instrumental repertoire ownership no other family seems as prone to controversy in historical matters as does the flute...
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Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:36:35 +1300
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| The small transverse flute that extends its existence well before Beethoven's birth, deserves much more earnest curiosity from its players and better research from its historians...
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Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:20:03 +1300
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| It is the performers that claim the limelight; that is just what they are supposed to do. Yet behind the stage there are other, almost silent, but oh-so-essential contributors to the development of ... |
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:15:57 +1200
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| With the spectacular Kamni-Savinja Alps as silent supervisors, the very first European Piccolo Symposium unfolded in the tiny hamlet of Jesersko, just south of the Austrian border in Slovenia.....
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Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:02:13 +1200
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| Although this was not a piccolo-designated year for the U.S.A.’s annual convention, there was still much to delight the piccolo aficionado.....
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Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:46:22 +1300
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| Is the piccolo a beginner’s instrument? Yes, indeed, but if we are truly honest about it, we must admit, that the limitations are not those of the instrument itself, but in our abilities to deal with t... |
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:59:47 +1200
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| What’s better than one piccolo? While for some flutists the cynical answer might be NONE, for real performers on the instrument, the notion of piccolos playing in ensemble with other piccolos is not th... |
Sat, 07 May 2011 16:52:29 +1200
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| Many of the events of the 2010 spectacular (and seventh biennial) British Flute Society’s convention in Manchester have already been documented in Flute and The Flutist Quarterly. However, not written ... |
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:37:30 +1300
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| Today the Db piccolo is considered little more than a forgotten relic from the band era of at least a century ago. In its heyday though, it and the clarinet were the most commonly found woodwind instrume... |
Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:54:23 +1300
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| What is it about playing the piccolo that conjures up your pet peeves? Is it the condensation that sometimes collects under the thumb key at the most inopportune moments? Is it all the “little” jibes... |
Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:44:27 +1300
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| It’s really, quite simple: what instruments we know about now are the ones that have managed to survive through a historical “development” in a process that seems to be conceived as a cultural evol... |
Sat, 01 May 2010 12:00:00 +1200
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| Because of all the possibilities embracing the new media formats can afford, even though this event may now seem like “old news”, I thought I would wait until Flute Focus went on-line to give my repo... |
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +1300
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Playing the piccolo, the one deviant instrument in the section, the little flute whose history is withheld, is it any wonder that piccolo players can experience feelings of marginalization or at least ... |
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +1300
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| It is common knowledge that many flutists dislike the piccolo and avoid having to play it. In most bands, the piccolo as the singular, ‘No-place-hide-instrument’ is located ironically next to the sec... |
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +1200
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| Can I have a piccolo lesson please? Yes, of course, but why? I suppose a ‘one-off’ piccolo lesson can be useful when preparing for an orchestral audition to boost confidence, but I often find that ... |
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 +1300
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| Plummer’s care in her own studies and her demonstrated insider knowledge in this article is comprehensive. I was sorry however to read her quotations from Cecil Forsyth’s Orchestration, (1914) for hi... |
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +1300
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