FS: Chromatic Simple System Piccolo in Pearwood

Irish Flute
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This is the Mollenhauer “Picco” flute. It’s fingered like a soprano recorder (Baroque), but is a transverse flute. It is a neat little instrument and very easy to play, but I’m not playing it much and I want a low whistle. Like new condition.

Pitched at C with A=442 Hz.

Comes with a carry bag and swab.

I’m asking $120 including shipping to the continental U.S.

I can’t seem to figure out how to insert a picture here, but I do have them and I will send upon request.

Here is the page at Mollenhauer’s site:

http://www.mollenhauer.com/index.php?op … de&lang=en

Thanks!

Kim

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sigh

okay… unBaroque

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Moderator notes that the above photo is perfectly correct.

Moderator also exercises his right to remove all evidence of his previous stupidity. :wink:

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moderator neglected to notice that the post had been edited… to fix the picture and add this line :smiley:

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What was the point of censoring this thread?

Would it not be informative for people to know that recorders, or flutes with the same hole configuration, come in two different styles - German and Baroque (also called English)?

Kim

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I think many of us were aware that there is two fingering systems.

I know that I could not have said which was which from looking at them, until yesterday.

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The moderator, Music Guru, has answered that question to my satisfaction. He said that he edited the thread to remove evidence of his own stupidity. He was thinking that with a doctorate in music he shown have known better. With years of reading recorder music and seeing the two different fingering systems diagrammed in the front of the music books, I was on the right page from the beginning.

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MT was correct.

I had posted the wrong picture. I edited the post, with the correct picture, after he mentioned my error.

He then did not notice that I had edited it and assumed that he had flubbed it.

He was wrong about being wrong.


ya need three rights to make a left :smiling_imp:

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Is the second octave shrill?

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If it has the same fingering as a recorder, does it go past third register A? Just curious.

But only 2 to build a plane?

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The fingering chart only shows two octaves - up to C.

Honestly, I cannot tell you how the second octave sounds. I’m basically a one octave plus a couple notes player.

Kim

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probably yer thumb… the venting is fussy

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they do have to be related :wink:

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Well, of course. I mean, it has to be lighter than air … and …

“He ain’t heavy. He’s my brother.”

:smiley:

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probably yer thumb… the venting is fussy

Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It’s dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down.



This doesn’t have a thumb hole. I’m a one octave player on any flute, even boehm. I just like the lower register and it’s easy. I stopped stressing about the high notes and am much happier. I mostly improvise in various styles. If I want to play high I’ll do a rock chop sort of thing.

Kim

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Really? That’s bizarre. Every description I’ve read says it uses standard recorder fingerings. It’s just a transverse head on a recorder body. Which means it must have a thumb hole, no? How else would you play C#, D, and D# without resorting to secondary fingerings?

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:blush: oh yeah… the flute :laughing:

the 2nd octave is easier, once you figure it out :smiley:


that cut & paste technique is the reason your link doesn’t work in this thread but works on the post in the UIE forum. If you would click the “quote” button on my post it would work better. For copying from one thread to the other copy from the edit box that I’m typing in.

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C# and D# are played by covering one hole of the double holed holes.

D is played by covering all the holes except the bottom double hole.

Kim

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he’s on the next octave up :smiley:

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Yes, that’s right.

I guess that, with embouchure tricks, you could do without the thumb hole in the 2nd register. But to me, the register break between D and D#/Eb seems pretty fundamental to recorder fingering.