I know this has been done before....Are there any specific tips you could give me about playing between the 2? I just started playind the piccolo and have played the flute for ( this is my..) 5 years. I`m not having problems playing the piccolo but I am having some when I go back to my flute. :0 I do really good with the flute and can play the piccolo so hope I gave you enough info! Thanks!

Someone please answer!!!!!

It is just going to take time to get used to switching between the two. Hang in there for a little while longer and don`t give up.

Don`t try to blow into the piccolo like the flute and make sure not to cover up too much of the whole on the piccolo. Think of the flute as it`s own instrument, it may have the same fingerings as the flute, but it nothing like the flute. You need to use a different embouchure and air flow to play the piccolo. You are going to have to work harder at keeping the notes in tune on a piccolo, that is just the nature of the beast. You can try working with a tuner, but you really need to learn how to use your ears more then anything. The ensemble that you are playing with is not always going to be in tune and you have to match them.

Practice your scales everyday and you will be on your way. Hope that helps, good luck!

Do warm up`s on the flute and mabey play a few pieces and then play th piccolo for a bit. But before you finish go back to the flute and play a few pieces or scales to warm down. This should help you get used to playing the both.

Ok thanks.....I`ll try those!

Tips... well I am the pic player for my band however, there are many missing and/or no parts for the pic so I switch back and forth to my flute within... seconds... the best thing i can suggest is to practice, and remember a flute is so not a pic. I would start out at home with your flute (play scales or what have you) then randomly switch to the pic until you can get used to it.

Echo...echo..echo

Re: "Oscillation between flute and piccolo is a piece of cake compared with clarinet and piccolo!"

If you`re going to try to OSCILLATE, I`d suggest mounting the instruments. I wonder what the composite waveform would look like.

Well that was uncalled for and not very pleasent either. Sorry for that Micron.

It`s like a...JOKE!

Kida gross though...

Gross? Oscillation would seem to mean something different to you from what it does to me. Oscillation to me is the thing an oscilloscope displays, a very dry sort of thing. I can`t imagine what it is to you, and I`m not sure I WANT to.

Maybe you`ve misunderstood "mount". You attach the instruments to a stand so that you don`t have to hold them in your hand and can thus can get from one to the other much more quickly--or maybe you haven`t misunderstood "mount"; the more I guess, more or less randomly, the sillier I look. So tell me already.

In America when we say you mount something that mean you sit your behind on it. So when you suggested Micron should mount his instruments... it was taken as being really quite offensive.

I honestly didn`t know what you meant either. I didn`t think you meant to be offensive, but I was also thinking putting an instrument on top of another in some way was a really odd comment.

Re: "In America when we say you mount something that mean you sit your behind on it."

That is A meaning of the term. It`s certainly not the only one nor the most common. It seems to me the context should have made it clear which meaning I intended, especially because the posting makes no sense whatsoever if you take "mount" here to mean "get on top of". Since that`s two of you, however, I suppose kara must have misread me as well.

Re: "I honestly didn`t know what you meant either. I didn`t think you meant to be offensive, but I was also thinking putting an instrument on top of another in some way was a really odd comment."

I rather think the problem, again, is not so much with "mount" as with "oscillate". If you don`t understand "oscillate", you won`t understand the context. The point of the joke is that the term "oscillate" implies very RAPID motion, such as the motion a violin string or a flute air column makes. If I tap my hand on this desk, tape-record the tapping, and play it back fast enough, I will hear, rather than a series of taps, a single sustained pitch. Oscillation is at the core of music. Furthermore, consider this: If I tap my right hand three times for every two left hand taps and play back the tape at sufficient speed, I`ll hear a perfect fifth: Harmony is gestalt rhythm.