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plural piccolos
: a small shrill flute whose range is an octave higher than that of an ordinary flute
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Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
If there were to be a museum (or, at least, a coffee-table book) collecting examples of this highly specific form of ache, Chalifoux would make a worthy cover—a closeup of her face, amid rows of her fellow-musicians, piccolo still affixed to her lips, playing through tears.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
Take, for example, the case of Roxanne Chalifoux, a piccolo player in the Villanova band who, in 2015, was immortalized during March Madness, when N.C.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
Or a tearful Villanova piccolo player soldiering through in the wake of a loss.
—Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Talukder won over the judges by playing oboe, English horn, flute and piccolo in a nearly 30-minute performance at the Spertus Institute Feinberg Theater in Chicago.
—Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
If there were to be a museum (or, at least, a coffee-table book) collecting examples of this highly specific form of ache, Chalifoux would make a worthy cover—a closeup of her face, amid rows of her fellow-musicians, piccolo still affixed to her lips, playing through tears.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
Take, for example, the case of Roxanne Chalifoux, a piccolo player in the Villanova band who, in 2015, was immortalized during March Madness, when N.C.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
Or a tearful Villanova piccolo player soldiering through in the wake of a loss.
—Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Piccolo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piccolo. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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