Rudall Carte & Co. 6-key Simple System Piccolo - assorted Welsh tunes .MP4

[Lisnageeragh]

Fine playing and sound...knew a guy who played trad on one of these ..back in the 50's.

[MexicanPiper]

Beatiful Piccolo!

[klezmerflute]

Excellent playing, Jem. You blow right down into the picc and that means the intonation is given its best shot. I know you would like a slightly higher C# and if I were sitting on it like at the end of the trill, I would simply lift it up to pitch - unless you trad players are so used to this :-) I'm not - - - yet....

I've corrected a few "A"s on my simple system flutes by covering that hole slightly - and I think you were the one recommending to do that! U restored this, right? GREAT JOB!!

[Jemtheflute]

@klezmerflute: Thanks for commenting, Adrianne. The picc didn't need any restoration when I bought it, just a repad and tidy up.

[holmesway]

You can really play those things Jem, It reminds me of my many hours of sitting next to John Doonan in the feis and ceilis

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[Jemtheflute]

@holmesway : Thanks, Norman.

[rustydog1236]

Very nice! What's the pitch if you don't pull out the head?

[Jemtheflute]

@rustydog1236: My Korg analogue tuner only calibrates up to A=445.- slide fully closed, the picc's A is sharper than that by about 30-40 cents/6-8Hz. But the scale intonation goes off a bit. I have it open about half the tuning slide's range to play at 440, depending on ambient conditions (heat/humidity). These flutes were not built/tuned based on their fully (or very nearly so) closed position, unlike modern Bohm system. I'm not flattening it beyond its design as one would be .... cont.

[Jemtheflute]

cont. .... pulling a Bohm head that far out. It isn't a high pitch instrument per se, although it has a good pitch-range either side of 440. Ones built for old English High Pitch are shorter.

[jprush]

Oh, and you sound great too! ;-)

[Jemtheflute]

@jprush Thanks, John! A bit fluffy, if I'm honest - not well enough focussed!

[jprush]

Sounds great! What an amazing little piccolo!

[Jemtheflute]

@jprush They are nice - a more open sound than Bohm piccs, I think, and of course, I can get my R hand fingers on without them wedging together/crowding each other off holes/keys, which I can't really on a Bohm. (Is why simple system piccs persisted among orchestral players way after Bohm flutes took over! Many men's hands won't fit on a Bohm picc!)