Richard Todd wrote:

>I'm not sure how you define a "Symphony Orchestra", but isn't there a
>piccolo in the score of Handel's "Water Music" that predates Beethoven
>5 by about 50 years (?).

This is lovely trivia, but there was not yet a form known as the symphony
as we define it today in Handel's time, nor was there any such thing as a
defined "symphony orchestra." I think the intent of the question was clear,
and this hair splitting defeats the whole purpose of the quiz.

Kevin