What are the similarities between flutes and piccolos?

Answer 1

They are both concert C instruments. This means that if you play an F on the piano, playing an F on the Flute will sound the same. The same thing goes for any other pitch you could play. In contrast, a concert B-flat Trumpet is shorter than the flute (which makes the pitch higher). To compensate, a trumpet player must play the next half step down to sound the same as the flute. So when a flute plays a concert C pitch, the trumpet would have to play his or her B-flat pitch for it to sound the same (essentially compensating for the different lengths of the instruments). If the trumpet player were to play a concert C at the same as the piano or flute, it would be a half step too high and would be very dissonant.

Answer 2

You finger notes the same (an Ab on flute is fingered the same on the piccolo). You might have to look into alternate fingerings for the 3rd octave to help them 'speak' better. You need a much tighter embouchure and a metal piccolo has tighter hand positioning than a wooden or plastic one. Piccolos are generally more difficult to play in tune than a flute; more than one playing at a time is usually a good headache for everyone involved. You will be heard on most anything you play with piccolo, even during marching band, so make sure you know your part!

Answer 3

Both instruments are able to disturb the air around us creating waves that lap against the eardrums of human beings and other creatures with eardrums. These waves are called sound waves. These sound waves are usually known as "sound". The "wave" is usually taken for granted. Usually only Human Beings are able to access the very different skill sets needed to use very different modes of operation to create these very different sounds. One sound is made by plucking (or bowing) and the other sound is made by blowing. If they were put together in one action they would be called plucking-blowing which is usually what people who leave questions like this spend most of their time doing.

Answer 4

They are both soprano-range instruments (although there are some silly debates amongst advanced high-school flutists and oboists that the flute is more of a colutarura in tone colour and the Oboe a soubrette...), both have parts written in orchestral pitch (Concert C), and are in their ways contributing members to the woodwind family and symphonic orchestra.

Try listening for the 'Floboe Phenomenon' in some orchestra pieces, like in Sibelius' Symphony in E or Prokoviev's or Beehoven's symphonies..

Answer 5

They are both woodwind. They are not reeded (oboe) or fitted with a fipple block (recorder). The flute and piccolo are aerophones. They are held across the mouth and air is blown over the air hole to produce the sound.

Answer 6

hi i have played flute for almost 3 years and play the piccolo since about last November. The flute is about your arms length with your hand and the piccolo is about 3 inches past your hand starting from your fingertips. Piccolo has less a little less buttons then the flute. the piccolo is way more high pitched then the flute, i hope this helped you.

Answer 7

The piccolo is a smaller, higher pitched version of the typical Western concert flute for the most part. The fingering is almost identical, the key is the same and the method of producing sound through a blow hole in a metal tube is the same. The major difference is the size of the blow hole and the length and breadth of the tubing, which gives the piccolo a higher pitch than the larger flute.

Answer 8

The read in the same clef/key/transposition, so if you are used to reading violin music it is easy to transition to flute. They also often share a melodic part in orchestral works, as the flute/piccolo leads the wind section in the same way that the violin leads the string section. Both of those similarities are due to the similar range of the instruments

Answer 9

they both kinda use air or something related to fingers

Answer 10

They are both instruments