Piccolo: Interview and demonstration with Nadine Asin

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Piccolo: Interview and demonstration with Nadine Asin발음듣기

("The Firebird - Suite" by Igor Stravinsky") I'm a flautist. But I also play the piccolo.발음듣기

The flute has a range from-- (flute blows) to-- (flute blows) Whereas the piccolo has a range from-- (piccolo blows)발음듣기

So as you can hear, the piccolo is much higher than the flute.발음듣기

The flute and the piccolo are kind of sisters, or maybe they're brothers. They're in the same family. They're related.발음듣기

And the flute, obviously it's much larger and longer, and that's why it's a lower instrument.발음듣기

And we play notes by adding or subtracting, lifting our fingers.발음듣기

And that's what changes the length of the tube inside.발음듣기

And the same for the piccolo.발음듣기

I add, I put my fingers down, or I lift my fingers up to change the length of the tube. And therefore change the notes.발음듣기

So, as I add my fingers.발음듣기

(piccolo blows) As I'm pressing down on the keys, and we're closing the keys, I'm making a longer tube inside, and lowering the notes.발음듣기

I do use wind, but I don't use a reed.발음듣기

I use my lips. I create the same kind of compression that a reed creates for a reed instrument like the oboe or the bassoon, or the clarinet.발음듣기

I do that with my embouchure.발음듣기

My lips form the embouchure, and I create a tube of air inside my throat from my lungs through my neck, through my mouth, comes out into the flute.발음듣기

(flute blows) And the same applies to the piccolo.발음듣기

Although, because the piccolo is so much smaller, everything is kind of in miniature on the piccolo.발음듣기

So I have a smaller embouchure on the piccolo.발음듣기

You can see the difference in where I blow on the flute and the piccolo.발음듣기

On the flute I have an entire lip plate.발음듣기

On the piccolo, which as you can see is made out of wood, so it truly is a woodwind, I don't have that.발음듣기

So I use my lips to find the position for my embouchure.발음듣기

(piccolo blowing) ("Symphony No. 2 - I. Allegro maestoso" by Gustav Mahler) Piccolo is used primarily as an orchestral instrument.발음듣기

You won't necessarily go to a piccolo recital.발음듣기

Playing the piccolo, in the orchestra, you will also play the flute, as a member of the flute section.발음듣기

However, if you're playing in chamber music, you will primarily be playing flute.발음듣기

If you're playing a solo recital, you will be playing flute.발음듣기

("Symphony No. 2 - I. Allegro maestoso" by Gustav Mahler) To me, the flute is a very lyrical instrument.발음듣기

And often in orchestra, we play along with the violins.발음듣기

And we kind of float on top of the orchestra, or we float on top of the wind section.발음듣기

And the fact that our instrument is either made of silver or gold, we've got this real shimmery quality that allows us to kind of create this sheen in the sound of the orchestra.발음듣기

And the piccolo is kind of the icing on the cake.발음듣기

Because it's so much higher than the other instruments.발음듣기

As a piccolo player, you have to be very careful not to overpower the sound of the other winds.발음듣기

You have to blend, you have to be a blender to play the piccolo. It's small, but it's powerful.발음듣기

So you have to really think about your role.발음듣기

Is the line that you're playing a supporting line?발음듣기

Are you playing along with other instruments, or is it a solo?발음듣기

If it's a solo, then you can kind of step into the spotlight.발음듣기

But if it's a supporting role, then you do best to really, just kind of cool it, and wait, and just blend with your colleagues.발음듣기

("Daphnis and Chloe - Suite No. 2" by Maurice Ravel) I started playing the flute because my best girlfriend in elementary school had a piano in her house.발음듣기

Every time I went to visit my friend Linda, I would make a beeline for the piano.발음듣기

I was just totally entranced with this piano.발음듣기

And so when they offered, in my public school, a program for wind instruments, I asked my parents if I could play a wind instrument.발음듣기

And I was just about to get my braces.발음듣기

So we went to my orthodontist.발음듣기

How about the flute? he said.발음듣기

And thus... my fate was sealed.발음듣기

And my parents bought me an instrument.발음듣기

And they got me a teacher.발음듣기

At my first lesson we played "O Sole Mio" as a duet.발음듣기

And when I heard her sound, she was a high school student and I was 10 or 11.발음듣기

When I heard her sound I thought, "That's it, I've fallen in love."발음듣기

And from there on in, I played all the time.발음듣기

And I joined orchestras, and I went to music camp.발음듣기

And I was a real music nerd.발음듣기

("Symphony No. 4 in F minor III." by P.I. Tchaikovsky) I would say for wind players, the kind of sweet spot is 10 to 12.발음듣기

And after that, you don't want to lose too much time.발음듣기

So 10 to 12 is really, that's when you really have to start thinking about it.발음듣기

Doesn't mean you're going to grow up to be a flute player. Because, you don't know.발음듣기

If you're at all intrigued by the sound of the instrument or the personality, give it a try. give it a try.발음듣기

Because it's great stuff. ("Symphony No. 5 in C minor IV." by L. van Beethoven)발음듣기

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