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Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" or piccolo flute, the modern piccolo has the same type of fingerings as the standard transverse flute, [3] but the sound it produces is an octave higher. This has given rise to the name ottavino [ a ] ( Italian pronunciation: [ottaˈviːno] ), by which the instrument is called in Italian [ 4 ] and thus ...
Piccolo crossed the Gulf of California to be Salvatierra's assistant about a month later. Piccolo founded the second Baja California mission, San Francisco Javier, among the Cochimí, in 1699 and served there until 1701, when he abandoned the mission, due to threats from the indigenous population. He then returned to Mexico City where he worked ...
Requinto was 19th-century Spanish for "little clarinet". [1] Today, the word requinto, when used in relation to a clarinet, refers to the E-flat clarinet, also known as requint in Valencian language. [2] Requinto can also mean a high-pitched flute (akin to a piccolo), or the person who plays it. [3]
Piccolo Teatro (Milan), Italy's first permanent theatre; Il Piccolo, the daily newspaper of the region of Trieste, Italy; Piccolo, a Yugoslavian film; Piccolo, an Indian Marathi-language film; Piccolo, a 1977 release by the Ron Carter Quartet; Piccolo Summit, a mountain in British Columbia, Canada; 1366 Piccolo, an asteroid
The Basque-speaking territories (the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre) follow Spanish naming customs (given names + two family names, the two family names being usually the father's and the mother's). The given names are officially in one language or the other (Basque or Spanish), but often people use a translated or shortened version.
Piccolo is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Alessandro Piccolo (agricultural scientist) (born 1951), Italian chemist and agricultural scientist
Amparito Roca is the name of a piece of music composed in 1925 by Spanish musician and composer Jaime Teixidor (1884–1957) who named it after one of his piano students, then 12-year-old Amparito Roca (1912–1993). It was first performed in September 1925 in the theater El Siglo in the town of Carlet where the composer lived at the time.
Piccolo (Japanese: ピッコロ, Hepburn: Pikkoro) is a fictional character in the Japanese Dragon Ball media franchise created by Akira Toriyama.He made his appearance in chapter #161 "Son Goku Wins!!", published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on February 9, 1988, [2] as the reincarnation of the evil King Piccolo, who was positioned as a demonic antagonist of the series.