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A bit late but still...

I've tested a YPC-32 first, but after a lot of suffering I realised that it's pitch was too high.
It wasn't my fault apparently, but that of the instrument.

I'm playing a Jupiter 301 now, I love it.

flutegirl16 wrote:Every time I play high E, there is some sort of "catch" before the tone comes out. All of the rest of my high notes are fine, it's just the E that is doing this.

Any suggestions?

do you mean it's sounds like an A instead of an E?

do you have E-mechanism on your flute?

learn to read notes, yes, you can do that already, but realy learn to read notes. Pick up a music book from time to time, and read the notes, don't use your instrument, yust read it. (also peaces of music in the f-key) bould it up, until you can read notes as if your reading a book. If you can do th...

Don't tighten your embrouchure.

Yes, it helpes to get to the high notes, but is sounds bad. (your tone becomes false)
My flute teacher says that you have to support your breathing more, and don't make your lips tighter.

Thanx :) Yamaha [ model YPC-32] I tried that piccolo already, and I loved it. But the YPC-62 played better, but I can't use that model... Sonare piccolos I didn't find anything about this piccolo.... Gemeinhardt piccolos They look good but I never tried one... Pearl piccolos. I checked it out, but I...

What brand of piccolo's are good?

thanx you

I won't forget to play on my flute

And I will safe for an hybrid piccolo

memorising make's it more easy.

Whenever I play something solo(that doesn't happen much) or something promonent, I memorise it.

It reduces the chance of mistake's, and you have to think les.

Almost forgoten: Is it true that when you start to learn piccolo, that your embrochure on the flute becomes "bad"? A flutist in one of the harmony's where I play in say's that she doesn't like to play the piccolo because her sound on the flute get's bad when she played the piccolo for a long time...

What kind of piccolo should I get? First, before you decide what kind of piccolo that you should get, you should determine what you are going to use it for. Are you only going to march with it? Are you going to march with it, then eventually also use it in concert environments? Are you going to wan...