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Carlton American Fife, Key of C - Nickel
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This traditional metal fife, with nickel plating, has a range of three octaves.
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5 StarsOut of tune and off pitch
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Closest Store Lethbridge, Alberta
Good embouchure and solid construction, but mine was terribly sharp--more like a flat D than a C. It was also out of tune with itself, as if the hole spacing didn't match the embouchure position or the tube length. So, easy to sound, reasonable tone, but impossible to play in tune or with anybody else. The cork is a tapered wine cork that had been inserted the wrong way, but greasing it and putting it in the correct position hardly helped. I am going to cut the head off and use it with a tunable whistle body--none of my attempts to modify the thing into playability have worked. There are much better wooden fifes out there at around the same price.
Posted by John Black on Mar 24, 2024
Compact, rugged, great sound
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Closest Store Edmonton South, Alberta
I love this little fife! It has a bright sound and goes up high very well. Sometimes I mess around in the 3rd octave with it. It's VERY loud the higher you go, of course, and will take a lot of practice. This is an excellent instrument to use to practice on, to train your embouchure muscles and to practice a six-hole instrument. It's right in the middle between a penny whistle, and a flute. I play this every day, usually for a few hours. I also play the penny whistle (Bb), tin whistle (D), quena (G -- an Andean flute), quenacho (D -- a low Andean flute), the baroque flute (D), a small antique flute/piccolo (F), openwhistle (F), and many other things. This helps me with all of them. Remember though -- playing fifes and flutes is hard at first. It takes a lot of practice before your lips will be string enough, but then the shape of your mouth will change, and playing will become easy. This is also awesome for the price.
Posted by Tim Young on Sep 14, 2018
OK but not great
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Closest Store Ottawa, Ontario
This fife can play the C major scale fine, but when I tried to play sharps or flats, the fingerings did not work.
Posted by anonymous on Aug 12, 2017
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| Product | SKU | Qty |
|---|---|---|
| American Fife, Key of C - Nickel | 415157 |
