when it comes to your instrument you have to like it...cuz i wouldnt be happy playing an Armstrong, and Laura wouldnt be happy playing a Gemienhardt..but there are some ppl that dont care...

Hope you fine your wooden piccolo..they sound BEAUTIFUL!

It is quite illogical.

So if you have an Armstrong wooden piccolo that sounded like S### then you would be quite happy?

It is the piccolo that matters, not the brand.

Like, if you were offered names such as Eldred Spell, Burkart-Phelan, Hammig, or the very expensive top Yamaha, YPC-91, would you turn them down?

....not to mention Powell, Muramatsu, etc. :-)

oh my gosh people, lol. Get a grip. If I`m going to order a used piccolo off the internet I want it to be a brand I am confidant with...that would be Armstrong. I don`t trust names like Gemeinhardt or Yamaha at all. If I went to a store and had a chance to test all of the flutes of course I would test other brands. But when all I can do is look at the brand name I`m going to go with Armstrong. Eesh.

Get a grip yourself!

IF there is a single model of piccolo that has general agreement among flute players that it is great value for money, a great player, and very reliable, it is NOT Armstrong, but Yamaha model YPC62.

This has been amply demonstrated in other flute forums. I don`t recall ANYBODY writing negatively of it. Sure, you can pay twice the price and open the door to a range of slightly superior options, but your outright condemning of Yamaha piccolos puts you on a limb, and demonstrates quite a degree of ignorance, sorry to say. But I`ve said it because your post is misguiding to other buyers in that it mis-represents both Yamaha and the widely held opinions of experienced flute/piccolo players. Have a happy day. :-)

I don`t CARE what other people say. As I`ve said, I`m getting a brand I trust! For pete`s sake, just let me decide what kind of piccolo I want to buy by myself. If you go back to my original post I`ve known what I want the WHOLE time, and I never asked for advice on it. Just help finding this specific piccolo.

If you saw the examples of really scruffy manufacture Armstrong flutes and clarinets that I have seen, then you would not have so much confidence in the brand.

Is the info you want here?

http://www.cgconn.com/catalog/results.php

If that does not work, try via http://www.cgconn.com/catalog/menu.php

thanks

Granted my Armstrong picc is an older one, but it really is a wonderfully responsive instrument. I also own a vintage wood Haynes Db picc (makes Stars & Stripes a breeze, btw). I tested a number of different piccs when I bought the Armstrong, and it was my favorite. It plays easily in tune with itself all the way up to the high C and has a pretty, sweet tone. I once loaned it to a friend who`s Weissman was in the shop for it`s annual COA and she actually said she liked my humble little Armstrong better. Of course, if I actually played picc more frequently, I would LOVE to get my hands on a cocuswood Burkart-Phelan, but for as often as I really play it, my little Armstrong was well worth the money. So there are good ones out there, you just have to play a bunch to find them.