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Author: breezy
Date: 2004-08-19 21:06
i play a ... well i think it says pj hardt piccolo. it's my schools piccolo. i don't know how old it is. okay, the trill keys don't seem to work. when i use them to trill, whatever the note i am trilling to, if it a whole step trill, the key make a note a half step high (ie not the not i wanted) or not make any difference at all. the piccolo is plastic with a metal head joint and keys. the ring at the end of the piccolo came off... will that affect my playing? my school's band was marching through the neiborhood around my school and when we got back to school the ring was just gone. the right hand 3rd key has no spring, which means it just 'lays' over the hole making e's and middle finger f#'s impossible. any solutions to any of these problems are greatly appreciated. also the pads of the piccolo are blue from the fibers from inside the case.
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Author: Amanda
Date: 2004-08-19 23:23
Get your school to fix it. It is not playable as it is. There's nothing YOU can do about it if there are parts missing.
Good luck.
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Author: Derek
Date: 2004-08-20 02:04
u could always hurl said piece of plastic pipe at band director and then politely ask for a playable instrument. Probably not the right course of action but it will provide u with that warm fuzzy feeling
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Author: Flute 1
Date: 2004-08-20 17:58
There is nothing that you can do.. but ask your band director for a new piccolo.. the thing is that school band instruments are very bad off and you can't play your best on an instrument that is faulty.. if you can afford it.. and you are serious about piccolo, I recommend that you have your own.. then this way you know that the instrument is well taken care of and that its yours personally.
I hope this helps
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Author: amanda
Date: 2004-08-21 12:31
tell your director that it needs to go to the shop and tell him why. if he says no them take your problem to the boosters. they are the ones that control the bands money anyway. they will most likely let you get it fixed at no cost to you (especially if you can find a booster that played piccolo in his/her high school years) hope this helps
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Author: Merlena
Date: 2004-08-24 16:38
Getting a spring replaced is fairly easy. As for the ring, I'm assuming you mean the one at the right end, not the cap at the crown of the piccolo? I don't see how that would affect the piccolo's playability... but of course I could be wrong. And I don't know about the trill keys either. The only solution I can think of is that you're playing C# when you trill? Or perhaps you're playing your C very sharp.
But really, the thing to do would be to follow everyone else's advice and take it to the shop with the school's money. It's their piccolo, after all.
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Author: Lindsay
Date: 2004-09-17 20:13
Yeah, get it fixed, or try to get a new one. The spring on my A flat key(the one that sticks out) broke off and I couldn't play at all, and they just gave me a new one. (only problem is I have to use the concert season one in marching season) So yeah, don't play that thing..
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