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Re: Head-joint cork adjustment
Posted by: "flutepilot" flutepilot@yahoo.com flutepilot
Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:43 pm (PDT)
Hello Mark,
Concerning the piccolo cork. Remember, the piccolo head is NOT conical like the flute head. It is a cylinder on any conical piccolo. A for the proper distance, you should have a piccolo cleaning rod with a mark on it. Place the cork with the mark in the center, then lip all three octaves of D without changing fingering. All three octaves should be in tune. If the middle octave is flat (probably), push the cork in a tiny bit and try again. Once the octaves are in tune, try the highest notes. The proper position is a compromise between the octaves being in tune and the highest notes playing properly. The position is normally 1-3 mm to the right of the 'proper' position.
Dan Colburn
USAF Band, D.C. Retired
--- In Galway-Flute-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Mark Lammas <marklammas@...> wrote:
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> I'll measure the distance on my other Yamaha ABS body piccolo, on which I've never shifted the cork, and which was reputedly given a total overhaul just before I bought it.
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> Mark L
