Sam Kemp:

>isn't there a piccolo in the score of Handel's "Water Music" that
>predates Beethoven 5 by about 50 years (?).

A piccolo ad libitum perhaps? Joke besides, Haendel wrote the piece with
recorders playing these high voices.  I have never heard that, but I
wouldn't be surprised if someone substituted the recorders for piccolo in
modern performance.

Mats Norrman
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