The ones I`m looking at are mostly the ones that are buy it now for around $100 or a bit less. How are these instruments? Quality? Sound? I want to learn piccolo just for fun and don`t have much money to spend but I don`t want a bad instrument either.

Thanks!

The chances are extremely high that they are S$#@ and that servicing will not be economical. And indeed, theymade need servicing immediately.

"It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is it. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - It can`t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better."

-- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

"There is hardly anything in the world that a man can not make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. And people who consider price alone are this man`s lawful prey."
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

I just got a piccolo off ebay- buy it now and it seems to be pretty good quality. It was supposedly brand new and it`s a Selmer. Can anyone tell me the lowest note on a piccolo? like the same low "C" as flute or what?

There is no low C (or C#) key on a piccolo, so how could you possibly play low C?

The lowest note is D. It sounds an octave higher than it would on the flute, because the piccolo is half the length.

The low D on piccolo sounds as the second D above "middle C" on the piano.