Editing Piccolo (section)

== Traditional use ==
It is a myth that one of the earliest pieces to use the piccolo was [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s [[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 5 in C Minor]], which premiered in [[1808 in music|December 1808]]. Although neither [[Joseph Haydn]] nor [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] used it in their symphonies, some of their contemporaries did, including [[Franz Anton Hoffmeister]], [[Franz Xaver Süssmayr]], and [[Michael Haydn]].<ref name="auto1">{{cite journal|last=Nourse|first=Nancy|title=The Symphonic Debutante Piccolo: Was it Really Beethoven's Fifth?|journal=Flute Focus|date=April 2008|issue=14|pages=26–29}}</ref> Also, Mozart used the piccolo in his opera ''[[Idomeneo#Instrumentation|Idomeneo]]''. Opera orchestras in Paris sometimes included small transverse flutes at the octave as early as 1735 as existing scores by [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]] show.<ref name="auto1" />

Piccolos are now mainly manufactured in the key of C or D. In the early 20th century, piccolos were manufactured in D{{Music|flat}} as they were an earlier model of the modern piccolo.<ref>{{cite thesis|doi=10.33915/etd.5756|id={{ProQuest|1947737021}}|type=Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance|publisher=West Virginia University|title=The Piccolo in the 21st Century: History, Construction, and Modern Pedagogical Resources|year=2017|last1=Hanlon|first1=Keith D.|doi-access=free}}</ref> For this D{{Music|flat}} piccolo, [[John Philip Sousa]] wrote the famous solo in the final repeat of the closing section (trio) of his march "[[The Stars and Stripes Forever]]".[[File:Joueuse de flûte à Château-Thierry.jpg|thumb|left|A piccolo being played]]

Although once made of wood, glass, or ivory, piccolos today are made from plastic, resin, brass, nickel silver, silver, and a variety of hardwoods, most commonly [[Dalbergia melanoxylon|grenadilla]]. Finely made piccolos are often available with a variety of options similar to the [[flute]], such as the split-E mechanism. Most piccolos have a conical body with a cylindrical head, like the [[Western concert flute#Renaissance (1400%E2%80%931600) and Baroque flutes (1600%E2%80%931760)|Baroque flute]] and later flutes before the popularization of the [[Western concert flute#Boem flute|Boehm bore]] used in modern flutes. Unlike other woodwind instruments, in most wooden piccolos, the tenon joint that connects the head to the body has two [[interference fit]] points surrounding the cork and metal side of the piccolo body joint.{{Citation needed|date=October 2013}}

The piccolo is used alongside [[Basler drum|marching drums]] in traditional formations at the [[Carnival of Basel]], Switzerland.

In 2014, a festival was born entirely dedicated to the piccolo, the [[International Piccolo Festival]], which takes place annually in July in [[Grado, Friuli-Venezia Giulia|Grado]], [[Italy]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Grado |url=http://www.internationalpiccolofestival.com/ |access-date=22 November 2022 |website=International Piccolo Festival}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/trieste/cronaca/2017/07/18/news/turismo-culturale-vincente-per-l-isola-1.15629362 | title = Il Piccolo (Trieste's main newspaper) | access-date = 2021-08-24 | archive-date = 2019-12-10 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191210005353/https://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/trieste/cronaca/2017/07/18/news/turismo-culturale-vincente-per-l-isola-1.15629362 | url-status = dead }}</ref>