Picco pipe

Infobox Instrument
name=Pipe
names=


classification=
*Wind
*Woodwind
range=1-2 octaves
related=
*Pipe and Tabor
*Recorder
musicians=
articles=The Picco pipe is the smallest form of ducted flue Tabor pipe or Flute-a-bec. The Largest is the Fujara. It was popularized Feb 21st 1856 at Covenant Garden in London by a 25 year old blind Sardinian player. (Ref pg# 742 in Groves Musical Dictionary) also [http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Picco+pipe (subscription access).]

It has only three holes, 2 in front and 1 dorsal thumb hole with the same mouthpiece as a recorder. It was 3 1/2" in length with the windway taking up 1 1/2". The fundamental scale is not normally used in tabor pipes. The bore end hole of the Picco Pipe had a small flare and the lowest notes were played with a finger blocking this end. The range was from b to c3 using the slight frequency shift between registers to sound a full chromatic scale, just like the Tabor pipe. [ [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/dcmflute.0128 Library of Congress: Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection] ] (The original was a Sardinian shepherd's pipe played by a man named Picco.) [http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Picco+pipe (subscription access).]

References

ee also

*Pipe and Tabor
*Recorder
*Panpipes
*Pipers' Guild

External links

* [http://memory.loc.gov/music/sm/sm1872/02100/02110/001.tif Instructional sheet for Picco pipe, published in the United States in 1872]