piccolo The piccolo ( ; Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" the modern piccolo has similar fingerings as the standard transverse flute, but the so ...

is a small flute. Piccolo may also refer to:

Musical instruments

Piccolo trumpet The piccolo trumpet is the smallest member of the trumpet family, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccol ...

* Piccolo clarinet * Piccolo oboe * Piccolo saxophone, better known as the

soprillo The sopranissimo saxophone (also known as the piccolo or soprillo saxophone) is the smallest member of the Saxophone#Members of the saxophone family, saxophone family. It is pitched in B, one octave above the soprano saxophone. Because of the dif ...

Violino piccolo The violino piccolo (also called the ''Diskantgeige'', ''Terzgeige'', ''Quartgeige'' or ''Violino alla francese'' and sometimes in English as the Piccolo Violin) is a small stringed instrument of the baroque period. Most examples are similar to ...

* Violoncello piccolo *

Piccolo heckelphone The piccolo heckelphone is a very rare woodwind instrument invented in 1904 by the firm of Wilhelm Heckel in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany. A variant of the heckelphone, the piccolo heckelphone was intended to add power to the very highest woodwind ...

* Piccolo

snare drum The snare (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin. Snare drums are often used ...

Piccolo bass A piccolo bass is either an electric bass or acoustic double bass which has been tuned to a higher frequency, usually one octave higher than conventional bass tuning. This allows bass players to use higher registers during soloing while retaining ...

Fictional characters

* Piccolo (''Dragon Ball''), from the ''Dragon Ball'' series * King Piccolo, a demon king from the ''Dragon Ball'' series * Anthony Piccolo, on the television series ''

seaQuest DSV ''SeaQuest DSV'' (stylized as ''seaQuest DSV'' and also promoted as simply ''seaQuest'') is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it ...

'' * Piccolo, a Pixl from '' Super Paper Mario''

Other uses

* Piccolo (surname), a list of people * Piccolo Teatro (Milan), Italy's first permanent theatre * '' Il Piccolo'', the daily newspaper of the region of Trieste, Italy * ''Piccolo'' (1959 film), a Yugoslavian film * ''Piccolo'' (2023 film), an Indian Marathi-language film * ''Piccolo'' (album), a 1977 release by the Ron Carter Quartet *

Piccolo Summit Piccolo Summit is a summit in the Fitzsimmons Range of the Garibaldi Ranges of the Pacific Ranges in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the north side of Cheakamus Lake just southeast of the town of Whistler in Garibaldi P ...

, a mountain in British Columbia, Canada * 1366 Piccolo, an asteroid *

Piccolo (firecracker) Piccolo (also sold under the trade names Great Bawang, Piccolo Corsair and numerous others) is a name given to a type of firecracker in the form of a thin small cylindrical stick filled with gunpowder and lit in the same way as a match. Composit ...

, a firecracker sold in Europe * Technoflug Piccolo, a German motor glider * A specific implementation of zooming user interface * A quarter-size bottle of champagne * A form of data transmission by shortwave radio using multiple frequency-shift keying * Piccolo protein (presynaptic cytomatrix protein),

PCLO Protein piccolo is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''PCLO'' gene. Function Synaptic vesicles dock and fuse in the active zone of the plasma membrane at chemical synapses. The presynaptic cytoskeletal matrix (PCM), which is associated ...

* A medium-sized variety of cherry tomato *

Piccolo (horse) Piccolo (8 May 1991 – 17 April 2016) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed promising but unremarkable form in his early career, winning one of his first ten starts. In the summer of his three-year-old season he was switched ...

* Piccolo, an upmarket brand of baby food {{disambiguation