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krosskuntryrunne
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Is a selmer bundy piccolo a good brand? Will it last? I wont be playing it every day just ocassionaly during marching season to be annoying in the stand tunes...LOL
I need something that will at least last and work decently...Im not looking for a very good or expensive instrument though...
Is a bundy piccolo ok?
My other option is an artley piccolo
How do these brands hold up?
Thank you!
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theflutist94
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You might not like hearing this, but I think that the brands you listed are terrible!
Some better quality piccolos you can get are used Yamahas, Armstrongs, and even Gemeinhardt.
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Alieannie
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It's for marching band. It's not of utmost importance what brand you get, as long as it plays. It's going to get rained on, sat on, possibly lost, and it will take a beating from the weather, and the sound get lost out on the field anyway.
I would not spend the money to get a nice picc (Yamaha etc.) for marching band. Whatever you can get your hands on that plays is fine. Seriously.
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suzie
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Just fyi, Artley flutes and piccolos stamped 'Elkhart' or 'USA' were actually manufactured by Armstrong. Not many folks know that and the Nogales Artley's I'd stay far away from (aside from the Wilkins...).
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krosskuntryrunne
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I know that there are better piccolos out there however I am on a very tight budget. HI suziE!!!
LOL
I had an armstrong piccolo (which i had to sell for my new computer) and my school has a gemeinhardt grenadilla piccolo however we are not allowed to take school piccolos to football games and I wanted my own.
THank you 4 your help
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suzie
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Hello! The year after I graduated high school, I came back to FL to check out one of the marching competitions (FBA - Florida Bandmasters' Association). MUCH to my surprise I found out that they had 1 marching piccolo. What was the girl playing? Nothing other than a fellow flutist's grandmother's Haynes wooden piccolo, of course! I was more than shocked when I found that out! *shakes head*
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theflutist94
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Speaking of using wood piccolos to march with, at MY school, each marching piccolo is a Yamaha YPC 82. Eek! And each Yamaha 82 costs more then the Boston Legacy the school uses for concert season...but the Boston Legacy sounds better anyways.
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atoriphile
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As long as the piccolo plays well, go for either Bundy or Artley. It will be better than those no-name Chinese imported ones, regardless.
As for marching with a wooden piccolo, as long as the temperature was reasonable (this is Florida, right?) and she was careful with it (didn't drop it), I don't see the problem.
Now, if it were in a place that was cold (less than 65 degrees F) or where fast temperature changes occured (e.g., air conditioned indoors to 90 plus degrees outdoors), then I would see a problem.
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theflutist94
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The wooden piccolos in my school are used for marching in weather that's 90 degrees or above.....Texas weather.
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jmonroe
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Please avoid the Bundy and Artley piccolos! They might sound okay, but they must be older, and the mechanism will not hold up...if they seem to work properly now! Pearl makes a resin composite piccolo that would be okay for marching and it is around $995.
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