00:00My name is Davide Bonomo, I'm from Italy and I'm a professional flute player.
00:04I play in orchestras, I love to teach flute and music to my students.
00:08Musicians can use music as medicine for their life, so if you're a musician,
00:13or if you want to become a musician, remember the most important thing,
00:17that you can use music and your instrument as medicine for your life.
00:21This is when you are upset, when you are happy.
00:23It doesn't matter if you play flute or violin, we're speaking about music.
00:28Piccolo is the smallest instrument of flute's family.
00:31Usually it's made by boot, but you can find silver or steel piccolos.
00:36In my opinion, wood piccolos play better and easier than steel or silver piccolos.
00:41It's divided in two parts.
00:43The adjoint in the wood version wouldn't have the mouthpiece,
00:46so we put our lolly directly to the adjoint.
00:49If I play along, the adjoint sounds like a whistle.
00:55And the body, which has keys.
00:57These keys allow us to play different notes.
00:59So if I put the adjoint into the body, we play piccolo.
01:12Piccolo has a very very smooth sound, very light sound, but it's very very high.
01:17And it is the highest instrument of orchestra.
01:20So it means that if you play piccolo and orchestra, everyone can hear you.
01:23Especially the second violin, which are exactly in front of you.
01:26Flute is divided as a human body in three parts.
01:30The first part, which is the most important, is the adjoint.
01:33In the adjoint, we can find the mouthpiece.
01:36And in the mouthpiece, all where we blow to obtain the flute sound.
01:40With the adjoint, we can produce the flute sound.
01:43Actually, if I want, I can create melodies only with this part.
01:55It's very difficult to do, but it's not impossible.
01:58For playing easier, we add the other two parts, which is the biggest part.
02:03And it has the most of keys.
02:05With these keys, we can play different notes.
02:08Flute is the smallest part.
02:09We can find the other keys of our flute.
02:12And in general, we use these keys for the low register.
02:16We can produce sound with the adjoint.
02:18Let's try with the body.
02:20Maybe it works.
02:27It doesn't sound.
02:28If we put our adjoint into the body, and into the foot, we have the flute.
02:35We blow in the adjoint, and with the keys in body and foot, we can play different notes.
02:48We saw piccolo and flute.
02:53I would like to see together the differences between these two instruments.
02:57Piccolo is smaller than flute.
03:00This is why piccolo plays higher than flute.
03:04Actually, piccolo plays one octave higher, exactly one octave higher than flute.
03:09With piccolo, the lowest note is the D.
03:12In piccolo, we have two parts, and in flute, we have three parts.
03:16Because piccolo is smaller, it means it has very little variation, for example in our blowing,
03:23produces a bigger effect in our sound, in our intonation, in the same flutes.
03:28Thank you for watching!
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