Picco pipe
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The picco pipe is the smallest form of ducted flue tabor pipe
or flute-a-bec.
It is 3½" long, with the windway taking up 1½". It has only three holes: two in front and a dorsal thumb hole. It has the same mouthpiece as a recorder
. The bore end hole of the picco Pipe has a small flare, and the lowest notes were played with a finger blocking this end.
The range is from b to c3, using the slight frequency shift between registers to sound a full chromatic scale, like the tabor pipe.
It was popularized in 1856 at Covent Garden in London by a 25-year-old blind Sardinia
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Three-hole pipe
The three-hole pipe, also commonly known as Tabor pipe is a wind instrument designed to be played by one hand, leaving the other hand free to play a tabor drum, bell, psalterium or tambourin à cordes, bones, triangle or other percussive instrument....
or flute-a-bec.
It is 3½" long, with the windway taking up 1½". It has only three holes: two in front and a dorsal thumb hole. It has the same mouthpiece as a recorder
Recorder
The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...
. The bore end hole of the picco Pipe has a small flare, and the lowest notes were played with a finger blocking this end.
The range is from b to c3, using the slight frequency shift between registers to sound a full chromatic scale, like the tabor pipe.
It was popularized in 1856 at Covent Garden in London by a 25-year-old blind Sardinia
Sardinia
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...
n player.