A small, high-pitched wood block used in certain orchestrions such as late Style Coinola X and SO. Tonally similar to clavés also listed in this Glossary.
piccolo 1
An adjective (from Italian) meaning small. A piccolo flute is a little flute, a piccolo wood block is a little wood block, etc. (Terminology rarely used by collectors today.) 2. A coin piano or orchestrion (slang; 1920s rural southern United States usage).
pierement
Dutch street organ. (Term originally used only in Holland; now used by some collectors in other parts of the world.)
piffaro (piffero) pipe
In dance organs a term occasionally used to describe a piccolo-like rank. (From a generic Italian term for instruments such as the fife, bagpipe, and others used by shepherds.)
harmonic flute pipe
Pipe, usually wooden, used in orchestrions, photoplayers, and organs. The harmonic flute is open at the top and has a small hole at the nodal point (of the sound wave) about at the center of the front or back of the pipe. This hole causes the pipe to speak an octave higher than it normally would, more promptly and with greater tonal stability. A harmonic flute pipe is not quite as loud as the equivalent piccolo pipe that is half as long. Used in many types of instruments; certain Seeburg coin pianos and orchestrions have harmonic flutes, for example.