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Emerson Boston Legacy is the best wood piccolo in the price range you mentioned! Have played on the Rosewood and the Grenadilla models. Yamahas are cool, but they cost too much! >Seaman - Does this piccolo have the same intonation issues as >the other gemeinhardts? No Burkart Phelan Global are great...

Jamie I have LOTS of experience buying these Colored instruments on ebay, and have had decent results to a point. Here is my view. The biggest problem with these instruments is overall quality of the instrument. Venus piccolos and the like will work, are playable , but they are not "quality consiste...

Pearl!.....nuff said Gemeinhardts get a bad rap, but I think it is WAY exaggerated! Frankly, I think Gemeinhardt flues are dependable, quality made, and good instruments over all. My only problem with them are their headjoints. This, and this alone, causes the problem with the "airy" sound, and the ...

The favorate flute I own is an english made Buffet/Crampton International model Yamaha Good quality, but heavily over ratted and over priced. Geminhart These are ok instrument. a little too light an airy for my tastes, but they are depenable for the most part. Would not be my first choice but would ...

Always just an instrument by how it plays, the quality of it, and how it sounds.

I have pics of both type that play and sound great.


Phineas

Armstrongs are good piccolos for the money!

I am the proud owner of an Armstrong 210! I chose this pic over Jupiters, Yamahas, and Gems around the same price.


Phineas

Bull The fact is to the average listener, there is absolutely no differnece. I do need an open hole to bend a note. That is a crock. Openhole flutes for the most part are just a fad. The most important part of the flute is the headjoint, and the design. The better the headjoint, the more flexible th...

MeLizzard Being a female or a male in music does not matter. However, depending on the circles you are in, there are stigmas behind being a male and a flute player, so there are differences. Another interesting note is demographics. What is the biggest population of flute players, especially the one...

The number one mistake people can make is learn to play something as fast as they can right off the bat. Think about this. When you do not know a task, you have to do 10 times more thinking than when you do a task. Think about something simple like typing. When you first learn to type, you have to l...

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Phineas

15+ Years I started out playing music when I was 6 playing Cello. Then I started playing Guitar when I was 7. (I am 38 now). I did not start getting serious about playing flute till I got grown. Primarily because I went to public schools, and there was a stigma about boys who played flute. Flute sta...

Also, James Galway is a Muramatsu artist, not Miyazawa (although many top players play both brands.) I should point out that Pearl is a Japanese flute (not made in this country) I stand corrected...lol I knew it was something Japanese that began with an M As far as Pearl, I was refering to availabi...

Is yamaha that overrated? I don't see how such a popular flute brand could be that overrated.. It should be really popular for a reason right? Maybe you just like different types of flutes than flutists in general? B/c if others agree with you that yamahas are really overrated.. then i might want t...

I am looking at intermediate flutes but I'm not sure whether I need solid silver in just the headjoint.. OR the headjoint, body and footjoint.. what do intermediate/advanced flutists generally buy? soild silver on all three pieces or just the headjoint? I'm wondering if its really necessary to have...

The Altissmo range (above C3) is not very forgiving period. Everything flows till you get to Eb, then it all kind of falls apart. You almost have to finger the notes depending on the arrangement you play, especially above G3. The fingerings just have no real flow. Other than that, just fingering not...