[TPIN] G - Piccolo Trpt (fingering)

[Thomas Hall]

My Stomvi Bb/A Picc has the "Maurice Andre" configuration - I can remove the
4th valve slide and replace it with a duplicate of the 1st valve slide.

It's nifty, but I don't have a use for the feature as of yet.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Denny Schreffler <dennyschreffler at email.com>
wrote:

> Although the post has been about the 4th valve on A and B-flat picc, some
> of you might have run into, or be interested in, a G picc with a
> differently conceived 4th valve.  Several years ago (seems like nearly
> everything is "several years ago" now) a colleague was trying to buy a G
> picc to use on the Vivaldi 2-tpt concerto.  Schilke was months and months
> out and Bach said that they were in the same situation, but I
> called Lloyd Fillio at Bach who "investigated" the storerooms and found
> two Paris Selmer trumpets in G that were not listed or accounted for
> anywhere in the Bach/Selmer inventory.  The 4th valve tubing on those
> little guys was exactly the same as the first valve.  My friend bought
> one of the instruments, and that odd 4th valve was useful in making
> certain trills better and gave certain tuning options -- kind of a quick
> change to F.
>
> Denny Schreffler
> Tucson
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