I agree about the willow or cane, however,a metal colorguard pole works well too... *evil laugh*

WOOD! I started learning piccolo with a silver one and I d it! It was soooo shrill!! The notes were alot harder to hit than a wooden one. As soon as I got the wooden one everything was beautiful! Tone quality, UNSHRILLNESS! and the notes were so much easier to hit, I hit a high B flat without even warming up.. and i couldn`t even do that on the silver one after warming up. Wood piccolo`s take alot more care, there`s always risk of in the wood or water damage. But they`re so worth while to play. Oh and my family was happy when I switched because of the sound difference. Hope that helped :D

ugh I have a net nanny thing and it blocked two words, so it could be confusing...

i ____d the silver Piccolo and wooden ones result in _____i_n_g lol sry about that

IT DID IT AGAIN!! *GAK* ok i`ll spell em backwards.... i detah playing the silver one... and wooden ones result in gnikcarc

WOOD

using a silver picolo is as easy as playing a rubber flute

pink flutist, I am not sure that I follow you? A rubber flute????

Perhaps that refers to "hard rubber", often known as ebonite. It is made from rubber that has been made hard by baking th e mixture with more sulphur.

It is one of the first `plastics` made, and is still used for most clarinet mouthpieces because of its dimensional stability.

Hard rubber is very different in its properties from rubber, so it should not really be called rubber. They are as different as liquid paint and set paint.