| Re: Bb trumpet to the picc
It took me about five years to get real, real comfortable on the piccolo. What helps, is (surprise!) long tones and lip slurs--it plays like a trumpet but not like the trumpet we grew up on. Some teachers prefer starting students on the Bb piccolo because of the pitch, some on the A piccolo because of the added resistance and slightly lower pitch.
Everything on the piccolo seems either doubled or halved. Things that seem to get doubled are bad intonation, among others; things halved include endurance.
I prefer the smaller bored piccolos (Scherzer), some players prefer the large bored ones (Kanstul). Schilke is the benchmark in intonation and playability, Selmer in sound. Good instruments fall in between and some (unfortunately) outside these benchmarks.
Have fun searching!
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