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Piccolo   /pˈɪkəlˌoʊ/   Listen
Piccolo

noun
1.
A small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute.





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"Piccolo" Quotes from Famous Books



... Le Normant, in his "Grande Grece," tells of the dye of the purple of Tarentum from the murex, found in the Mare Piccolo. He says that Tarentine muslins, woven from the filaments of the pinna dipped in the dye of the murex, rivalled those of Cos. Le Normant laments the total neglect of the murex in these days (could its trade be revived?) Plutarch says that ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford
... realizing that the other had spoken. For the Nevian voice is pitched so high that the lowest note audible to them is far above our limit of hearing. The shrillest note of a Terrestrial piccolo is to them so profoundly low that ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith
... sorry at all, me, w'en de feller was ronnin' away, An' man he's come out wit' de piccolo, an' start heem right off for play, For it's kin' de musique I be fancy, Jeremie he is lak it also, An' wan de bes' t'ing on dat ev'ning is man wit' ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond


Words linked to "Piccolo" :   transverse flute, flute


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