At 8:08 PM -0400 10/22/07, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
On Mon, October 22, 2007 7:46 pm, Robert Patterson wrote:
Any information about piccolo extensions is welcome.
Yes, for me, too. I wrote a piece that went down to C based on info I'd
received from a player in Europe, who said it was commonplace. And even
when I studied orchestration many years ago, we were told that any
professional orchestra had piccolos with C extensions.
Not so, said the person to whom I delivered a commission. Almost nobody
has C extensions, and they sound bad anyway.
Reliable info welcome.
I will inquire. I know that I have never seen one, and I'm at a
university with quite a decent instrumental instruction program and a
very fine professor of flute, but I will ask. I can say that it is
not a "standard" instrument and should never be assumed, perhaps
equivalent to a bass clarinet with a low C extension, but I believe
the bass clarinet is much more standard. We also have a
flute/piccolo player who is now retired but was for a long time the
first call flute/piccolo player in Las Vegas and is a good friend of
the fellow who started Flute World (and who actually owns a
contrabass flute!). I'll ask her, too.
My quick reference for many of these questions is the "WoodWind &
Brasswind" catalog, which might seem strange because I'm sure they
get the bulk of their business selling school instruments, but they
offer a wide range of instruments, including several Low C bass
clarinets. In three pages of piccolo listings, there is not a single
low C piccolo.
But I'll inquire.
John
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John R. Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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