What makes a flutist take up the piccolo, that unforgiving "footlong stick of wood?" Sometimes it's our old friend, the law of supply and demand. Catherine Payne, who's been supplying the San ...
At community band concerts across the nation today, patriots will rise from their lawn chairs to clap and whistle for the tiny but mighty piccolo. America, the footlong woodwind deserves your applause ...
Paul McCartney was watching TV, saw a trumpeter playing a Bach Brandenburg Concerto on screen, and next minute invited him to play on one of the Beatles’ biggest hits. That’s how the story of the ...