Pine'E' Fife

This beautifully crafted wooden 'E fife' type flute is one-piece, lightweight pine, with a woodcut of a fife-player printed on it. The key of E was the third key I made fifes in, because it is an important guitar key .

Hold fife sideways to the right and blow across the mouthpiece. Simple fingerings obtain notes of the scale (diatonic mode --do-re-mi..) in the key of E, and cross-fingering gets notes in between. Getting the notes of the upper register (next scale up) requires a bit more practice. The higher scale can be fingered as the lower, or with cross-fingerings as in the instructions.

The 'carved contour' mouthpiece (inset photo) makes blowing easier, especially for beginners.

If you use PayPal I can ship promptly. My address there is alan618@verizon.net (for Fontana Studio). Please email me with any questions. Price: U$ 10.00 Shipping in US and Canada via Airmail Letter Post is $ 4.00 USD. Outside the US/Canada please email me for quote. Discounts on quantity shipping.

Happy Playing!

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