Like to have a piccolo to double the flute in a session and a stageband. It’s not going to be my principal instrument so I wouldn’t like to spend too much money, but it has to be a good instrument.
Any ideas? Thanks,
Bart
I think a Skip Healy Piccolo costs are $350 US Skips work is usually highly regarded although I have only ever seen a Flute by him which was quite nice. If that is too expensive there is always the Sweetheart Pro which only costs around $100 US.
I’ll second that Healy flutes are nice. I wouldn’t be surprised if the piccolos are just as nice. Here’s a link: http://www.skiphealy.com/.
-Casey
I have a Sweetheart D Piccolo/fife in diamondwood, about
a year old, that I simply don’t play. Would be glad to
sell it to you, or anybody, for 80 bucks, say.
It seems a good piccolo, plays OK, it’s in tune,
carries very well, and so on.
If interested PM me.
Also I have a Sweetheart C fife in applewood, I think, also in new condition,
which i don’t play. Glad to sell this too. It plays fine.
I really don’t play the piccolo, so double check my opinions with some one more knowledgeable, but I will try to stick with facts.
Skip Healy makes piccolos, but it might be worth finding out what custom options he has. To my knowledge his piccolos are always have rounded rectangular embouchures and are six or ten holed. The Healy fifes and piccolos use a parabolic taper in the head rather than a tapered body that Sweet, McGee, and Hammy piccolos use.
http://www.skiphealy.com/instrument/fife_picc_main.htm
Ralph Sweet sells a D piccolo that was mentioned above and uses a oval embouchure. It does not have a metal tuning slide, but the tuning can be adjusted with the tenon.
http://www.sweetheartflute.com/fifes.html
Tony Dixon makes a whistle/piccolo combo. Unlike the Sweet Pro whistle it has a cylindrical body and I do not know if the piccolo head is also cylindrical.
http://www.tonydixonmusic.co.uk/instruments/index.html
“Hammy” Hamilton makes them unfortunately I know nothing about his piccolos. Check out his Catalogue section.
http://www.hamiltonflutes.com/
Terry McGee makes piccolos that can be ordered with several embouchure styles, with or without tuning slide, with large or traditional bore, and can be made with keys.
http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/piccolos.html
Edited for accuracy. Thanks Jessie!
Thanks to you all!
I think I can manage now. 
Bart
And which ever maker you choose, be sure to go with the cheapest material Bart, because they all sound the same. 
Loren
My impression is that, when it comes to wooden folk piccolos,
there is considerable truth in that.
That’s just why I posted this topic here. Google wasn’t of any help regarding ‘Irish Piccolo’s made of concrete’.
I knew ferro-concrete would be hard to find, but, be fair, no concrete at all…?
Bart
By the way, the Sweet Pro fife has an oval embouchure.