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/ˈpɪkələʊ/ · noun
(music) A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher..
[A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.
There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet.
Use piccolo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Piccolo means (music) A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher..
Common synonyms include octave flute, busser, commis waiter, omnibus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.
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