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piccolo, small transverse flute flute, in music, generic term for such wind instruments as the fife, the flageolet, the panpipes, the piccolo, and the recorder. The tone of all flutes is produced by an airstream directed against an edge, producing eddies that set up vibrations in the air enclosed
..... Click the link for more information. pitched an octave higher than the standard flute. Its tone is bright and shrill, and it can produce the highest notes in the orchestral range. The piccolo is used in orchestras and especially in military bands. See fife fife, small transverse flute with six to eight finger holes adopted for military music by Swiss regiments serving in France in the late 15th cent. The fife was used in the British army until the end of the 19th cent. The piccolo has largely replaced the fife in modern use.
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piccolo

a woodwind instrument, the smallest member of the flute family, lying an octave above that of the flute

Piccolo

in any family of musical instruments, the one that is smallest, and highest in pitch (piccolo flute, piccolo domra, and so forth). The term usually refers to the smallest flute.

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Piccolo retired to Lavington Stud in 1996 as the winner of four races, the feature of which was the 1994 Nunthorpe Stakes, which he was awarded in the stewards' room, and the 1995 King's Stand Stakes.

Piccolo on the move for next year by The Racing Post (London, England)

Palermo police chief Giuseppe Caruso said at the time of Lo Piccolo's arrest that with the Provenzano-Rotolo-Lo Piccolo triumverate behind bars, there was no one of the same stature to take their places.

Italian police arrest 100 in anti-Mafia raids by AFP / AFP Global Edition

That arrest appears to have stymied an ambitious plan by Lo Piccolo and his "family" to help themselves to a cut of the profits from a scheme to build a new stadium and commercial centre.

Mafia bosses got free tickets to football by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

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