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Yeah, I thought it was a good deal. when I went to buy it, I had to pick between the yamaha and a hammig. Does the hammig play $500 better than the yamaha? ....yes...... does it play $2000 better than the yamaha? no way.

Anyone play something different than a Yamaha?

Well, to be honest, I wouldn't go down the road of cheap piccolos lightly. However, if you do want a cheap one, the brand to go with is Symphony. They are pretty reliable (i have one as a back up, and it hasn't needed adjustment for over two years). The plating comes off easily, but what do you expe...

After reading all of these articles and opinions on piccolos, I started to wonder what piccolos we all play.

I play a wooden Yamaha YPC62.

Any one else?

I have never had a problem with range. I can play from B1 all the way to F#4, and there arent any more notes to learn.....

They all seemed rather easy to learn with the proper fingering chart.

I was ten.....

try to rework your phrasing so that you can take a DEEP breath, and then decreascendo from there.....

My current flute professor has many different methods for this sort of problem. She likes the movable fermata (play the notes, but hold out the ones that don't "speak"). she also says that changing the rythm helps. I prefer her method of learning the run backwards (start with the last note, and play...

I really don't have any tips for this. I have always been to flutter tongue, and can do it both ways (rolling the tip of my tongue, and the gutteral form). I don't really know why, genetics I guess. My mother is of french descent, so I guess that is a lot of it. Et, Je parle le Francais! Qui parle l...

Frankfort Kentucky

Well, it looks like there are more techies out here in kentucky than i thought! I regularly dissassemble my flute to fix it (i havent been trained, but i have watched). Knowing as much as i did, when i went to have my flute fixed, i told them what needed to be done, and they did an amazing amount of...

I agree with all of the above. Sonare is a relatively new line, and they are still working the bugs out. My Flute professor suggested me to them, for my college flute (she is very biased for anything Powell related), but i didnt like them. Gemeinhardt and Yamaha are both good brands. Keep in mind th...

go to wikipedia.com and look up flutes. there are lower flutes than the contrabass flute. the lowest is a hyper bass. (4 octaves below a concert flute) 15 meters long

Hello everyone! This is a question for those flute majors in college,and everyone else who has a good range. I know that the flute normally plays three octaves. However, I have read that some can play in the fourth octave. I know that I can play from the lowest b, to the fourth octave f#(seven ledge...

here is my advice. Try them all. I am currently deciding which flute to get for college (flute performance). When I tried instruments the first time, my tutor preferred my sound on Miyazawa (she plays a Brannen). My professor prefers my tone on Pearl. It is all a matter of taste. My opinion on the f...

theoretically speaking, if the used instrument plays as well as the new instrument, purchase the older one. The wood has aged, you won't have to break it in etc. However, if you are looking for wooden piccolos, give yamaha a try. I played several types of piccolos when trying to find the right one, ...