Similar woods are used for drums, clarinets, oboes and wooden flutes and piccolos.
There were pocket-sized boxes for the piccolos, a wheeled-trolley for the harp and knobbly trunks, all barnacled in stickers, for the cellos.
In its original version for flutes and piccolos, the work is one of his most beguiling.
They were more abstract, made entirely out of old recorders and wooden flutes, but were recognizably boys, priapic with piccolos.
The first of three movements, or passages as Mr Norgard calls them, opens with the glittering sounds of violins and piccolos, before dropping suddenly towards the growling depths of contrabass trombone and contrabass tuba.
The tutti strangeness is that of an orchestra without violas and cellos, but in which double basses, contrabassoon and piccolos are prominent.
