| The piccolo trumpet repertoire goes far beyond baroque trumpet (music written for the trumpet back in the day). The facility of the pic in performing transcribed works originally for violin, oboe, etc gives it its own niche -- and you won't see those works being performed on natural or baroque trumpets. I like seeing the traditional baroque trumpet pieces performed on the valveless horns, but I agree with the previous poster that they won't 'replace' the pic for performing them -- and there's a lot more that the pic can do.
GT |