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More often, Ms. Frank deploys an unusual combination of instruments, such as piccolos and celesta, or a motif—like the short, repeated pulse that sounds like a cry—to create a dreamscape that is all her own.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Band members received new uniforms, new drums and, most recently, new flutes and piccolos, all of it paid for by the district’s budget for the arts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024

Pining piccolos, flutes and strings were strung through the third with the tension of the suspension bridge.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

On his website, Bird writes that he derived pitches for the background piccolos by analyzing “a crash cymbal and Janet Leigh’s infamous scream from Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho.’”

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022

By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived--no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald