Talk:Fife (instrument)

In America's Colonial period I believe that C was the most common key and continued to be popular until the Civil War ________________________

I'm not sure about fifes and the American Colonial period, but I do like them. I first learned to play a fife in 1962 in Australia. I still have my original metal fife in D and it is stll playable. Now a young girl I know wants to learn how to play. If you hear of any links to beginner fife music and/or beginner fife books for sale, I would love to hear about them. Thanks for the info so far :-)

_For a beginner go to Flutewise.com ,M.W.-TN

I love fifes! For a beginner, go to Ed Boyle's site, www.beafifer.com and get his materials for learning the fife. Ed has taught countless folks to play the fife, and his system for learning on your own is a terrific one (about the only one you'll fine). Good luck!

Fifer330 00:28, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

I would like to point out that the Americans did not use "The Irish Duty." In fact, there was no such thing. There Americans used the English and Scotch duties, which makes sense considering their close ties to Great Britain. The use of the English and Scotch duties by American musicians is well documented. Examples exist from original American fife manuscripts including Giles Gibbs, Aaron Thompson, Samuel Dewees, and John Greenwood. I'm not sure where you came across that reference, but I thought that it should be corrected. For more information, I recommend the book: Military Music of the American Revolution, written by researchers of the Brigade of the American Revolution. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RevWarDrummer76 (talk • contribs) 03:08, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

POV Section: Fife in military music

The last three paragraphs of this section need serious work: to say that, The best place to see real fife and drum bands in action is in Britain. is totally not Wiki style, as it adds nothing to the article, and violates NPOV.

Copyediting is also needed. Much of the text could be re-worked to be more in-line with native English usage, for example, ironing-out the clunky, atypical semantics of also and always.

The sentences appearing together in these three paragraphs lend no overall meaning to any topic sentence; this is mostly a list of opinions, arbitrarily divided by two line-breaks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.20.193.113 (talk) 16:52, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

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'Fife' - Instrument vs Location? Disambiguation page?

When searching Wiki for "fife", the default page it takes you to is the page for the 'council area in Scotland'. Why is this? Other instruments that share a name with a location take you to the instrument, not the location and this seems to be the rule of thumb... why doesn't 'fife' go to the instrument page? Is it possible to change this? (Other instruments that are also locations: drum, trumpet, marimba, etc...) Walterblue222 (talk) 20:45, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

The above question has also been posted and responded to at Talk:Fife#'Fife'_-_Instrument_vs_Location?. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:52, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Mutt Lunker! Discussing it over there. Do you think it is reasonable/possible for the default to be the disambiguation page? Walterblue222 (talk) 07:31, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

"Fifre" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Fifre and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 6#Fifre until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. eviolite (talk) 04:49, 6 March 2022 (UTC)