Piccolo (disambiguation)
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A piccolo
Piccolo
The piccolo is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The piccolo has the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written...

is a small flute.

Piccolo may also refer to:
  • A specific implementation of Zooming user interface
    Zooming User Interface
    In computing, a zooming user interface or zoomable user interface is a graphical environment where users can change the scale of the viewed area in order to see more detail or less, and browse through different documents. A ZUI is a type of graphical user interface...

  • Il Piccolo
    Il Piccolo
    Il Piccolo is the main daily newspaper of Trieste, Italy. It has been founded in 1881 and it has since kept a moderately progressive political stance.-External links:*...

    , the daily newspaper of the region of Trieste, Italy
  • A quarter-size bottle of champagne
    Wine bottle
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  • A form of data transmission by shortwave radio using multiple frequency-shift keying
    Multiple frequency-shift keying
    Multiple frequency-shift keying is a variation of frequency-shift keying that uses more than two frequencies. MFSK is a form of M-ary orthogonal modulation, where each symbol consists of one element from an alphabet of orthogonal waveforms...

  • Piccolo protein (presynaptic cytomatrix protein), PCLO
    PCLO
    Protein piccolo is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PCLO gene.-Further reading:...

  • A smaller form of another musical instrument, including:
    • Piccolo trumpet
      Piccolo trumpet
      The smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B...

    • Piccolo clarinet
      Piccolo clarinet
      The piccolo clarinets are members of the clarinet family, smaller and higher pitched than the more familiar high soprano clarinets in E and D. None are common, but the most often used piccolo clarinet is the A clarinet, sounding a minor seventh higher than the B clarinet. Shackleton also lists...

    • Piccolo oboe
      Piccolo oboe
      The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe, is the smallest and highest pitched member of the oboe family, historically known as the oboe musette...

    • Piccolo saxophone, better known as the soprillo
      Soprillo
      The sopranissimo or soprillo saxophone is the smallest member of the saxophone family. It is pitched in B, one octave above the soprano saxophone. Because of the difficulties in building such a small instrument—the soprillo is 12 inches long, 13 inches with the mouthpiece—it is only...

    • Violino piccolo
      Violino piccolo
      The violino piccolo is a stringed instrument of the baroque period. Most examples are similar to a child's size violin in size, and are tuned a third or a fourth higher...

    • Piccolo heckelphone
      Piccolo heckelphone
      The piccolo heckelphone is a very rare woodwind instrument invented in 1904 by the firm of Wilhelm Heckel in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany. A variant of the heckelphone, the piccolo heckelphone was intended to add power to the very highest woodwind register of the late Romantic orchestra, providing a...

    • Piccolo snare drum
      Snare drum
      The snare drum or side drum is a melodic percussion instrument with strands of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, plastic cable, or gut cords stretched across the drumhead, typically the bottom. Pipe and tabor and some military snare drums often have a second set of snares on the bottom...

  • A banned firecracker
    Firecracker
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     in the Philippines

As a surname

  • Antonio Piccolo
    Antonio Piccolo
    Antonio Piccolo is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie B club Livorno.-Biography:Born in Naples, Campania, Piccolo started his career at Campania club Salernitana Sport. After the club went bankrupt in 2005, he was signed by Serie B club Piacenza. Despite young age, he made his Serie B debut...

     (born 1988), Italian footballer
  • Brian Piccolo (1943–1970), American football player
  • Felice Piccolo
    Felice Piccolo
    Felice Piccolo is an Italian football player. He plays in the defensive position and currently plays for Romanian side CFR Cluj.-Juventus & various loans:...

     (born 1983), Italian footballer
  • Michele Piccolo
    Michele Piccolo
    Michele Piccolo is an Italian footballer who plays for Pizzighettone .-AC Milan:Born in Badia Polesine, Veneto, Piccolo started his career at Veneto club Padova, about 50 km to his born place. In September 2002, he joined Milan youth teams. He played his first and only match for A.C...

     (born 1985), Italian footballer
  • Salvatore Lo Piccolo
    Salvatore Lo Piccolo
    Salvatore Lo Piccolo , also known as the Baron , is a Sicilian mafioso and one of the most powerful bosses of Palermo, Sicily. Lo Piccolo rose through the ranks of the Palermo mafia throughout the 1980s and he became the capo-mandamento of the San Lorenzo district in the early 1990s, replacing...

     (born 1942), Sicilian mafioso

Fictional characters

  • Piccolo (Dragon Ball)
    Piccolo (Dragon Ball)
    is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball manga, authored by Akira Toriyama. Piccolo was first introduced as the reincarnation of the evil Piccolo Daimao in chapter #167 first published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on April 4, 1988, making him a demon and archrival of the primary...

    , a character from the Dragon Ball series
  • Piccolo Daimaō, a fictional demon king from the Dragon Ball series
  • Anthony Piccolo, a character on the television series seaQuest DSV
    SeaQuest DSV
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  • The name of a Pixl from Super Paper Mario
    Super Paper Mario
    is a platform style console role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. Originally developed for the Nintendo GameCube, it was released for the Wii in 2007. The style of gameplay is a combination of the previous Paper Mario titles and Super Mario Bros. titles...

  • Piccolo, a character in the television series A Different World, portrayed by Tupac Shakur
    Tupac Shakur
    Tupac Amaru Shakur , known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world...

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