Instructions for Piccolo

Are you a professional piccolo player and are tired of painstakingly aligning your headjoint every time you put your piccolo together? Or have you resorted to drawing guide-lines on the headjoint and body of your piccolo for the quintessential set-up? Or are you simply a student that cannot replicate putting your piccolo together like your teacher did in your last lesson?

Perhaps, you played in a masterclass and had a prominent teacher change the setup of your headjoint and your piccolo playing was transformed, yet you've found it difficult to duplicate on your own.

Having become completely obsessed with the proper set-up for both myself and my students of the headjoint position in relation to the body of the piccolo, I developed the PremAligner for piccolo players to demystify the goal of a consistent position every time one assembles their piccolo.

Beginners to professionals alike can benefit from the PremAligner as a simple and effective tool for flawless positioning of their piccolo headjoint, which can have a huge impact on response, intonation, projection, dynamics, tone colors, correct hand positioning and the overall ergonomics of the correct piccolo to body ratio.

Most importantly, beginners will be able to align their piccolo headjoint properly after their first lesson!

Each package contains two sets of PremAligner labels for piccolo!

Set-up video

Instructions:

Step One

Clean the piccolo headjoint thoroughly to remove dirt and oils.

Step Two

Begin by placing the piccolo headjoint completely into the body. Then line up the headjoint with the body of the piccolo as desired, either by yourself or with your teacher's help.

Step Three

Once everything is positioned, place the measurement label on the side of the headjoint, as indicated in the photo, making sure that the tip of the rod system on the body, is pointing to the number 8 on the measurement label on the headjoint.

As you go along you might find that using a higher or lower number for the headjoint works better. If you make a change, remember the new number because it's what you'll use every time you put your piccolo together.