The piccolo is almost identical to the flute, therefore the
physics of the two are vastly similar. All instruments in the flute family
are constructed according to the Boehm system and have the same fingering.
There are two commonly played flutes and two piccolos: the C and alto G
flutes and the C and D piccolos. The characteristic which differentiates
the piccolo from the flute is that it is smaller in size, the consequence
of which is that it has a higher pitch (one octave to be exact). The piccolo
is half the length of a flute, 33 cm.