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Piccolo in Wagner

all his works, and in the Meistersinger gives it a regular solo, accompanied by two flutes.

Wagner, Meistersinger, iii. 5 (abbreviated).


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Tschaïkowsky shares with Berlioz the great advantage of having been himself a practical flautist, an advantage which is much greater in theTschaï-
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case of a wind instrument than in that of strings. In early life Tschaïkowsky studied the flute for two years, and played second flute in N. Rubinstein's orchestra at the St. Petersburg Conserva-

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