| Hi,
I think I know your colleague. It isn't Dimitar? I played with him in Germany with the Vidin Staatphilharmonie and Jörg in the Danube Festival. Great player!
I would speak about my picc., and why I have it. Because no very people have this opinion in piccolo playing. I play a Yamaha Custom, that is a copy of the famous Schilke, maybe diferent because the Yamaha use a normal shank. My teacher, Rodney Mack, plays too the same. But I had before a old Selmer, and I tested more piccs (Stomvi and Schagerl too). The beautiful tone I found, was in the Stomvi. But I feel they sound too beautiful. I'll explain that, If you want to play a nice picc sound for baroque and solo work, that's your instrument. But you hear the instrument and not the player. That's why I like my Yamaha: you can hear the player not the instrument. That's very flexible and I play both solo and baroque literature, as well orchestral music, with very diferent colors, but the same equipment. I can cut in tutti ff with the picc. Some of mine colleagues can't do it, with other piccs.
I recomend you to test this picc too.
And of course a classic as Schilke!
Greatings to Dimitar and all brass players in Vidin!!!!
Take care
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Albert A. Castillo |