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07-07-2008, 11:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | Does anyone here play the fife?
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I decided myself to learn to play one.
One problem- I can't get a note out of the thing!!
Anyone got any ideas/help?
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07-07-2008, 12:30 PM
| | | Can you blow across a bottle and make a sound? It's very similar.... you blow mostly across the hole (not all into it like it looks like).
I don't play but have friends that did... I managed to get a few notes out of one.... biggest thing is to purse your lips and then *relax* and blow across  . Make sure you are covering the holes well, you want to use the pads of your fingers to cover them......
Good luck
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07-07-2008, 12:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | I tend to avoid fife, full of bloomin fifers!
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07-07-2008, 12:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | No one played Fife like Don Knotts. 
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07-07-2008, 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Atoz No one played Fife like Don Knotts. | LOL!!! 
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07-07-2008, 02:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | | Thank you... I'll be here all week.
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07-07-2008, 02:25 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | i'm not from the 18th century, so no...i don't play a fife 
is a the fife like a cross between a recorder and a flute? |
07-07-2008, 03:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: I'm a dyno man, N.of Detoilet | | | No fife, but sometimes, the purple piccolo!
Josh
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07-07-2008, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Atoz No one played Fife like Don Knotts. | Dammit, that's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the thread title!!!!!
Nicely played. 
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07-07-2008, 04:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | *facepalm*
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07-07-2008, 05:28 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by J.D.B. No fife, but sometimes, the purple piccolo!
Josh | i know what you mean, it's hard to resist having a blow on the purple piccolo. 
it just looks that damn good. |
07-08-2008, 10:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | I actually played the fife for a summer as part of a job at Fort George in Niagara on the Lake, ON. It was about 16 years ago!
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07-09-2008, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Sochi, Russia | | I play Irish Flute and they are fairly similar. Try this video, the guy explains the very basics and his lesson helped me alot. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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