Trevor James 5XSP Piccolo - Silver-plated Headjoint

The Trevor James 5X with silver-plated headjoint elevates the piccolo doubling experience with enhanced tonal focus and response characteristics that advanced players immediately recognize. While the composite body maintains stable intonation and durability across Wisconsin's demanding performance environments, the silver-plated headjoint adds brilliance, projection, and articulation refinement—bridging the gap between student composite instruments and professional wooden piccolos. Critical for section leaders, honor band candidates, and serious doublers who need more than entry-level capabilities.

Trevor James understands that advancing players develop embouchure control and air speed management that can exploit better materials. The silver-plated headjoint delivers enhanced harmonic complexity and tonal clarity compared to composite-only construction, with the thin-wall design and carefully shaped lip plate maintaining the 5X's signature easy response across all three octaves. The result: brilliant, focused sound from low D to high C with the projection needed for exposed solo passages and ensemble balance—without the pinched, shrill quality of budget instruments or the maintenance demands of full wood construction.

This configuration offers the best of both worlds: the silver headjoint provides professional-grade tone and response, while the composite body delivers practical advantages essential for school musicians and gigging players—stable intonation regardless of temperature fluctuations, durability through marching season and transport, and minimal maintenance requirements. Silver-plated mechanism ensures smooth, precise action that matches quality concert flutes.

• Headjoint: Silver-plated, thin-wall design with carved, angled lip plate
• Body: Composite material
• Mechanism: Silver-plated keywork
• Pitch: A=442 (standard orchestral pitch)
• Case: Wooden case with protective cover included