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| | Piccolo and Eb Flute |
 | | The piccolo has been around for approximately two hundred years but actually traces its roots to the fife, which was used extensively in European military music, long before the piccolo came into being. |
 | | Eventually, the smaller piccolo with keys gradually supplanted the larger, keyless fife and was possibly in use as early as the music of Handel, in his opera Rinaldo, and the music of W. Mozart, in some of his operas and German Dances. |
 | | In band music, the Db piccolo, rather than the larger orchestral C piccolo, was the mainstay until the early 20th Century, when the Db parts were gradually transposed for the C piccolo because of its stronger tone. |
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