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 [log in to unmask]