Fs: Murray (Still available) and Improved London, cocus and ivory (SOLD)

Currently for sale:

Murray Blackwood all wood piccolo. 250 pounds

and

English piccolo, cocus, ivory and nickel, 6 keys
100 pounds

Contact me at dunnbanjo@yahoo.com

Tom Abei

Just having a look at Tom Abei's website.

He mentions a piccolo model on his news page, here

I will contact him for more info at some point. Perhaps he'll take an order for a keyed boxwood piccolo.

Tom is based in Basel and he mentions  it's a Fastnacht piccolo.

Another London Improved

 Just won another piccolo marked London Improved D, this one with an Ivory head.

 The last one I did up was a great piccolo for Irish music with a solid low range.

  I'm hoping this one shapes up the same.

ITMA and Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band

The Irish Traditional Music Archive has recently put up a whole sluagh of piccolo recordings from Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band.

The piccolo is featured prominently on loads of these recordings. I think there were a few piccolo players over the years including Murty Rabbet and Owen Frain.

Some of the playing features a strong vibrato which was popular on piccolo recordings of other styles of music at the time. I read that this strong breath vibrato became popular because early recording techniques could not capture a more subtle vibrato. I don't know about this claim as it was disparaging its further use today by classical players of today.


Here is the link

On eBay

 

 

Someone sold nice looking Eb and D piccolos. They were self made. I never got the name of the maker.

The d went for around 50 pound.

 

Beautiful silver and cocus piccolo flageolet combo marked Parker sold for 195.

Eb or F Hawkes piccolo (hard to tell from photos but looks smaller) sold for around 45 pound.

Pic marked C Schoter and son Birmingham. Sold for 101 
pounds. 

Beautiful boxwood and ivory Italian (ottavino) piccolo on eBay Italy sold for 121 euros.

Another Italian piccolo stamped Rampone from eBay US, sold for 62 dollars.

 

Nice looking Metzler and Co. in a nice case, 100 pounds.

 

Eb Hawkes failed to attract opening bid of 99 pounds.

 

 

Nice looking boxwood and ivory piccolo sold with an F flute. Pic was marked Harris , sold for 216 pounds.

 

 

 

 

Hawkes and Son D restored piccolo went for 86 pounds.

 

An Antique Piccolo by G Fitzgerald Woolwich c1860/80, boxwood and ivory.

Sold for 42 pound 

                

French Flute and Pic

Came across this lovely pair of French flutes while looking for info on a Le Comnte flute I'm working on. Love the tiny separate feet French piccolos often have.

Piccolo plate

I grabbed this image of a plate from a woodwind book off of eBay.  I think it shows German and English style piccolos. Not sure of the text it came from.