Italian Rover wrote:
i will use the original embochure, cutting it at the proper lenght and trimming it, so i will slip the mouthpiece on it. I will preserve the original tuning slide.
I will cut the part a little longer to avoid problems, so i'll try both the mouthpieces.
That's a good concept. Hope it works out.
This is where I think the Susato joint may not be sufficiently large enough. The Sweetones are still a decent choice. Have you measured the inside and outside diameters of the piccolo head?
Just because you are making a soprano instrument it does not mean that the head also has to come from a high pitched donor.
It is sensible to seek out a head that will mate up with the dimensions of the piccolo head. The diameters of the interface points are the big issues. Then there are tooling and craftsmanship necessary to bring things together. Alto or tenor whistles could be good donors - perhaps something like a Howard low D head (slip-on fit possibly) or Kerry Optima maybe. And I would not overlook measuring a Yamaha soprano or alto ABS recorder heads as well. That could actually be the least expensive and best sounding alternative for a donor mouthpiece. We're talking about Frankenwhistles here.
Italian Rover wrote:
I don't know the Oriole's sound i know very well the Sweetone's one and i like it very much.
The Oriole sounds very much like a Susato Kildare or Dublin. You may not be familiar with the those either. Kevin Crawford plays a Kildare in C with Lunasa. Here is a video of Lunasa playing the set they call Island Paddy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9DLP4PobwYThere is a lot of the room in that video. Go to the studio recording if you want something more representative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1s6H_TqWZ4 Your sound will be a bit different in any case due to the dimensions of the piccolo body - that and the variation in the operator.
You can contrast that sound with that of Sharon Shannon playing an Abell whistle on the same tune whcih is likely where Lunasa got the arrangement from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdXrNo3-BE I think the Susato represents itself rather well.
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