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Becrystal · Post by **Becrystal** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:49 pm

Ok, I have two questions. The first one's not all that inmportant for NOW, only because I'm asking my teacher about it tomorrow morning, but the second one I'd rather ask here.

Ok, first of all on my piccolo (which I only bought a few months ago) all my Cs are comming out as very sharp Bs. I don't get why, I know why my tuners saying they're Bs because thats what they are playing as, but I don't see why. I was at practice and it was fine, then I got home and practiced for about 10 minutes and it started doing that. I put it away, and got it out about an hour later and it worked fine, for about a half hour and then it started doing it again. The same thing hapened again today..ack..but just Monday it was fine.

Second, (yes, I know I need a serving care kit thingy) the end of my mouth peice is starting to look a bit* green...how can I get that off?

*Note: by a 'bit' I mean a lot.

powayflute01 · Post by **powayflute01** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:55 pm

Hmm, interesting predicament. Your piccolo intonation could be a result of any number of things...difficult to say without actually seeing it. Needless to say, piccolos are notorious for having poor intonation as it is, so it might just be your instrument. Your piccolo might just have really flat C's so you might need to roll WAY out and adjust your airstream when you play C's (now that I think about it, my old piccolo did that. My C's were really flat and my D's were incredibly sharp..) It's very cumbersome, but it works. Or I could be completely wrong, and it could be a leak of some sort (I wouldn't mess with your keys unless you really know what you're doing though--I find piccolos kind of difficult to work on. )Your teacher may be a better resource for this, as it's difficult to diagnose your problem online...

Now when you say your mouthpiece is green, do you mean green as in mold? Or is it green deposits on your flute? Either way, I'd recommend taking your flute in for a COA (clean, oil, adjust), or if you haven't had your flute looked at in a REALLY REALLY long time and it looks gross, perhaps an overhaul. You should get one (COA) done once per year to insure the mechanics of the flute are functioning optimally and they'll clean your metal off too...

noseflute · Post by **noseflute** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:53 am

Hiya,

Re. the very flat C's... you might have a "moisture bubble" underneath the thumb pad. Try blowing it out (ask an oboist - they do this all the time!!) or just swabbing your picc out (but this wouldn't be practical to do in a performance situation!). This could explain why one minute the C's are fine, and the next they're not.

Good luck!