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