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The piccolo (/ ˈ p ɪ k ə l oʊ / PIH-kə-loh; Italian for 'small') [1] [2] is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" or piccolo flute, the modern piccolo has the same type of fingerings as the standard transverse flute, [3] but the sound it produces is an octave higher.
Western concert flute; Fife; Alto flute; bass flute; Contra-alto flute; Contrabass flute; Subcontrabass flute; Double contrabass flute; Hyperbass flute; Bansuri (India) Irish flute; Koudi (China) Dizi (China) Native American flute; Daegeum (Korea) Nohkan (Japan) Ryūteki (Japan) Shinobue (Japan) Švilpa (Lithuania) Venu (India) Kaval (Anatolian ...
Edge-blown aerophones is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification. In order to produce sound with these aerophones, the player makes a ribbon-shaped flow of air with their lips (421.1), or their breath is directed through a duct against an edge (421.2).
The piccolo is the highest-pitched member of the flute family, with a range an octave above that of the concert flute. It is usually the highest-pitched instrument within orchestras and bands. The piccolo is known for being difficult to play in tune due to its small size.
A kōauau is a small flute, ductless and notchless, four to eight inches (ten to twenty centimetres) long, open at both ends and having from three to six fingerholes placed along the pipe. Kōauau resemble flutes the world over both in tone quality and in the range of sounds that can be produced by directing the breath across the sharp edge of ...
The garklein recorder in C, also known as the sopranissimo recorder or piccolo recorder, is the smallest size of the recorder family. Its range is C 6 –A 7 (C 8). [citation needed] The name garklein is German for "quite small", and is also sometimes used to describe the sopranino in G. [1] Although some modern German makers use the single-word form Garkleinflötlein, this is without ...
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The Colombian Requinto Tiple (or Tiple Colombiano Requinto) is smaller than a standard Tiple Colombiano, and is sometimes shaped more like a violin or Puerto Rican cuatro, or sometimes like a small guitar (smaller than the standard Tiple). It also has 12 strings and is also triple-strung, but the higher pitch means that all of the strings in ...