Yes, a flute is the sideways thing. Piccolo is the smaller version of flute. Thinking about percussion..... The move itself would be easy enough. You'd parent the hand to the drumstick, and the script would try to move the stick to the face of the drum at the Key Down instant. Big problem: MIDI is wildly non-standard. Some files have a separate track named Percussion, but there's no standard way to tell the drummer "hit bass drum now" or "hit cymbal now". Somebody has probably developed such a trick, because MIDI is very expandable... but the trick would only work for those specialized files. It wouldn't work for the vast majority of MIDI.

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