Holiday house cleaning; all now on eBay:
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original Guild Ashbory bass guitar (the rubber-band bass); ends Monday afternoon, U.S. Eastern Standard Time.
custom 10-string banjo-mandolin; staggering appearance and tone; ends Monday afternoon, U.S. Eastern Standard Time.
Terry McGee piccolo, perfect condition; ends Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Eastern Standard Time.
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Thank you for your kind attention.
tommy what do you do with the piccolo?
Do you use it as you would a whistle?
Or what?
Does anybody here play piccolo?
What do you do with it?
Like ITM-wise.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze answer
my question.
Sorry, Jim, I really don’t get the question.
I don’t do much with it at all; I’m selling it.
It would take me more practice time than I’m willing to put into it (based on the proficiency I’d attained the first time around and based on my noodling this time) in order to play it well.
If you’re asking if it is the same as a whislte - by all means no. Just as a low whistle and a flute are different beasts, similarly, in the hands of a practiced player, a piccolo can provide more tonal and volumnal ranges than a whistle. Conical bore, too, just like a flute.
Thanks. Sorry to be obscure.
I know how to play soprano D whistle in ITM.
Here’s another instrument, a different one,
in the same range.
So how does one use it to play ITM?
Why not just play a whistle? What does
the piccolo get you that a whistle doesn’t?
There are some bloody loud whistles,
after all. Like the copeland.
What for pay 800 bucks,
twice as much as a copeland silver
whistle, for one of these instruments?
What’s it get you that makes buying
one rational? Why did you buy it?
Why does terry make it? What does it
do that much cheaper instruments in
the same key don’t do as well?
I’ve never seen a session with a piccolo.
Sincere questions.
Jim,
For one thing, as an ex-bandmate put it, it sounds not like a whistle at all, but (this wooden one Terry makes, at least), like a small wooden flute.
I wouldn’t recommend it if you have no flute experience, however; the embouchure is the tricky part and it’d be better to start out with some “grosser muscle movement” flute work before getting down to the very fine detail required to manipulate a piccolo greatly.
I mean, I can play some tunes on it, and in tune, but I can’t really control it as I wish most of the time without serious time put into it.
Apart from that, I think I’ve answered the question previously (low whistle to flute is akin to high whistle to this kind of piccolo).
Thanks
I love playing ITM on the piccolo. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to the whistle. I don’t play in sessions though.
Grey Larsen makes mention (forget which book) of the fact that piccs were very popular in sessions in the old days because of the very fact that they could be quite loud.
His historical mention is what set me in that direction in the first place.
Do you find it too loud? Too shrill?
A piccolo, especially a reasonably well-made wooden one, doesn’t need to be loud or shrill at all. My wife has a lovely nach-Meyer ivory-headed piccolo that’s got a wonderful, warm tone. Of course it can be played loudly, but just as with a flute, one can back off on the volume. And if it’s unwelcomely shrill, one isn’t playing it properly.
Not too loud - can be played loudly or softly. Very sweet sounding & not shrill. I play in the lower two octaves with an occasional higher note(s).
However, like flutes, piccolos vary. Perhaps even more so than flutes. I wouldn’t purchase one without trying it, and better yet several.
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Tommy. Stop bumping your non-whistle related garbage to the top of the list. List the piccolo here. That’s fine. Nobody cares about your other items. HELLO…this is an Irish music flute board.
And Hello to you, too.
I have posted many musical instruments for sale on C&F in the past.
Even if the instrument in question was not specifically targeted to a particular list, the posts have been permitted due to the fact that many of us who play flute (or whistle, or a stringed instrument, or etc.) also play other instruments. There’s a phenomenon similar to that of language-learning; once a person learns to play one, learning another is usually easier in some ways and provides the player with a continued challenge and continued enjoyment.
If my posts are deemed as “undesirable” by the powers that be, then so be it. I am not attached.
I would, as a person who also browses the topics, hate to see such lists of instruments for sale parsed down to your strict requirement; I have purchased several wonderful instruments over the years which would, by your definition of exclusion, not have been advertised on C&F at all.
I care about the other items, FWIW.