To anyone who plays both the flute and piccolo - does learning the piccolo help your flute playing (since the piccolo embouchure needs to be 'firmer')?

Thanks,
carys

Hi since gettin a piccolo i dont think it's really helped my playing of my flute but i did find it difficult 2 get a nice sound out of the piccolo at first. Hope that helps x.

Thanks - I was curious

do u get sheet music for piccolo or just use flute music? and is the piccolo much different to a flute?

Depends, I have lots of music that is for both.

I found playing the picollo hard, I kept slipping into the second octave! Guess it would help to get the higher octaves on flute though.

Don't really know much about the piccolo- is it really just a minature flute??

we dont have piccolo's at our school but yesterday i was helping demonstrate the clarniet and flute to year 7's and i said to my head of music that it would be good to have some piccolo's for them to have a go at as well as flutes etc...

so emm we are gonna order them!!!

As a flute player with 22 years professional playing behind me ,I can say that playing the piccolo and putting some consistent practice in helps a great deal, as one of the most common faults with young flute players is to use to much air, too relaxed an embouchure and insufficient diaphragm- the point being that you can get away with it to some extent on the flute but the piccolo is not so forgiving and so acts as a sort of indicator of correct tone production. So the message is: try to do 15-20 minutes a day in addition to your flute practice and the benefits will build over time.

QUOTE (boston @ May 16 2004, 06:58 PM)

As a flute player with 22 years professional playing behind me ,I can say that playing the piccolo and putting some consistent practice in helps a great deal, as one of the most common faults with young flute players is to use to much air, too relaxed an embouchure and insufficient diaphragm- the point being that you can get away with it to some extent on the flute but the piccolo is not so forgiving and so acts as a sort of indicator of correct tone production. So the message is: try to do 15-20 minutes a day in addition to your flute practice and the benefits will build over time.

Interesting, thanks. I think one of my problems is that I do use too much air, especially once I'm out of the bottom octave.

QUOTE (boston @ May 16 2004, 06:58 PM)

As a flute player with 22 years professional playing behind me ,I can say that playing the piccolo and putting some consistent practice in helps a great deal, as one of the most common faults with young flute players is to use to much air, too relaxed an embouchure and insufficient diaphragm- the point being that you can get away with it to some extent on the flute but the piccolo is not so forgiving and so acts as a sort of indicator of correct tone production. So the message is: try to do 15-20 minutes a day in addition to your flute practice and the benefits will build over time.

Interesting, thanks. I think one of my problems is that I do use too much air, especially once I'm out of the bottom octave.

Yes it does help enormously. I am grade 3 flute now and intersperse my flute prac. by playing my piccolo and it really does help with tone production!:-)

woa, tr not to bump a thread thats over 4 years old.

Er, why?

Yes why not bump it if it on the forum and someone found it interesting I for one wasnt around 4 years ago?