Piccolo
Low B♭ on the Piccolo
Written B♭4 — sounds concert B♭5. Tap the diagram to hear it.
Plays the real sound: written B♭4 sounds concert B♭5 on piccolo.
Written B♭4 takes the same fingering as on the flute and sounds B♭5, an octave higher. The piccolo's bottom octave is quiet and hard to project; use a small, fast airstream and don't overblow. An alternate fingering is listed below.
About this note
Written B♭4 takes the same fingering as on the flute and sounds B♭5, an octave higher. The piccolo's bottom octave is quiet and hard to project; use a small, fast airstream and don't overblow. An alternate fingering is listed below.
- Primary fingering: Thumb B key + Left index (key 1) + Right index (key 4) + E♭ key (right little finger)
- Written pitch: B♭4 · Concert pitch: B♭5
- Sounding frequency: 932.33 Hz
Alternate fingerings for Low B♭
- Thumb B-flat (Briccialdi lever): Thumb B♭ lever (Briccialdi) + Left index (key 1) + E♭ key (right little finger). Use in flat keys and any passage with no B natural in it — the thumb simply lives on the B-flat lever throughout.
Piccolo fingering data last updated . Every diagram here, in the printable PDF and in the chart image comes from one dataset, so the paper and the screen cannot disagree.