Hello Forum,
For my first post, I was wondering if any experts out there could give me advice on different piccolos. My local music store has a composite Emerson (EP3?) that I am going to try out, get on trial, and bring to my weekly lesson. I would love to try the Pearl Grenaditte Piccolo with a Traditional head,which I will do if the Emerson doesn't work out, via Flute World. Another music store carries Gemeinhardts and Armstrongs, around the $500-600 range. I would use this piccolo definitely for concert, but a school picc for marching. Any recommendations under $1000 USD would be great.

All would be fine for school age. Just try them yourself as we are all different. What may work for me, may not work for you. Also, you can use the search button and find a lot of information on this.

Don't try them out one at a time. Get them ALL on trial AT THE SAME TIME if you possibly can. Then you can honestly compare them to each other: how easy to blow, how easy to play highest tones, how clear are the lowest tones, smoothness of mechanism, etc. If you try them out separately, you'll never know how they really compare.

If you're contacting Flute World for trial piccolos, get several and not just one! That's what I did.

Thanks for all of the advice. I posted this before I read the post about new members.The older posts were helpful, especially about the Pearl Grenaditte piccolo, but I didn't see any information about the Traditionalheadjoint. I also feel that some brands change over time, and some of the posts were from 5 or 6 years ago. Overall, everyone's been very helpful and I was just wondering if some brands were to be avoided.