The Gem from Jem:
I’ve been playing on one of the little D-Piccolos made by Jemtheflute. It is a delightful instrument with good tone and it’s fun to play. The Fajardo Wedge really does the job of bringing the octaves into tune while taming the loudness of the high notes. This piccolo is responsive, balanced, sweet, trim, durable and low-maintenance. It’s great when played solo, and I think it will be welcome among other musicians. A great value.
Walt Sweet
Thanks, Walt - very generous of you - your feedback and support is much appreciated.
If a piccolo maker says that a piccolo made by another maker is good, must be true 
Makes perfect sense purchasing a piccolo picked by a piccolo performance-pleased player.
Either that, or Jem knows Walt’s dark secret.
All attempts at alliterative assertions are absolutely asinine and awful. Annihilate! 
Any additional awsome afterthoughts?
Apologies! (Sorry mahanpots - not meant seriously… you know it’s dangerous to start me on wordplay…)
… the astute among you will have noticed that noticed that, in Jem’s last nine words there, the last two were redundant …
heh heh
Funny, i’n’t he? (He thinks…)
Astute? That’s pronounced “ass toot” in Yank, I believe.
Apprehended and appreciated, Jem.
Jem, Is there web site where I can get more information on your piccolos? Tin
get two…they’re small 
Ditto! I like mine quite a bit too. As someone mentioned elsewhere, I think I’ve found the perfect whistle I’ve been searching for, and it’s a piccolo.
-Brett
Caveat: Jem is one of my oldest friends, so bear that in mind as I offer support … On the other hand, that normally means that I’m horrible to him and abuse him unmercifully and without end.
… but these little piccs are a real joy - to look at, to hold, to play (yes, even I can play this one). He deserves to do very well with them indeed. tin-titan - just buy a couple. They’re so cheap, you can’t go wrong, and seriously, they’re great.
The one complaint that I have with Jem’s piccolos is that they are a little small and light weight to ward off attackers. I think that my low D flutes are much better for that. We don’t have any guns in our house, but we do have flutes lying around in convenient places all around the house. In the inter city neighborhood where we live, you can’t be too well-prepared.
No need to cosh anyone with one, Doug - just play the 3rd 8ve and they’ll be begging for mercy or running… Failing that, one would serve quite well for one of those little martial arts finger-stick thingies.
tin-titan, I take it you found my C&F Commercial Post from Denny’s link above? (Thanks, Denny. ) All the info you could want (and probably more…) there. I don’t have a website, nor likely to in the near future (not really necessary/worth the design & upkeep time as yet…).
Mine came in the mail today. What a lovely little instrument (I forgot how small a high D side blown instrument was)! And the price, considering the quality, is amazing.
Now I just have to adjust to playing something so small and light sideways…compared to a flute, it feels like you’re not holding anything.
I’m incredibly happy with mine!
Eric
To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee, that’s not a piccolo…
This is a piccolo:
Like those readymades. Ever try a mini bicycle pump? I read that someone won at the Oireachtas with one of those.
Wow, that’s a pretty piece of eye candy there. I wonder who made that puppy?
Nice! Unusual to find one with a C foot - even on modern Bohm ones! Is it yours, has it a maker’s name…???
While we’re on cute little fellas, how about this one, went on eBay a few days back - for rather less than I suspect it is worth given how unusual it is and what decent condition it is in. I did stick a little snipe on it on the off-chance, but it went for about twice what I could contemplate at present - still cheap, though. I doubt I’d be able to play it - fingers would wedge together.
It is a 4-key boxwood piccolo in F.
I probably mentioned this before, but, if so, here goes again. Several years ago I answered a help-wanted ad in the local newspaper in Tucson. At that time, Roy Seaman, a world-famous maker of blackwood piccolos, had his shop in town, and he was advertising for a person to learn the art of making piccolos. Touring his shop, I could see that he had about five employees, most of them sitting at benches doing keyword. I must have done poorly in the interview because I wasn’t chosen for the position. Roy could probably see that I was really into plastic flutes, although I didn’t realize it at the time. Not too long after that Roy closed his shop in Tucson and started making his piccolos for Gemeinhardt in northern Indiana.