fife

• “The effective centre of my Own fife is the Province of Quebec and I would not have it otherwise.”

  Quebec—Problems of Growth

• “The old cylindrical ear-piercing fife is an obsolete instrument, being superseded by a small army flute, still, however, called a fife, used with the side drum in the drum and fife band.”

  Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891

• “He had a great longing — strange enough in that peaceful sheep-raising neighborhood — to go into the army; but he and his elder brother were the mainstay of their crippled father, and he could not be spared from the large household until a younger brother could take his place; so that all his fire and military zeal went for the present into martial tunes, and the fife was the safety-valve for his enthusiasm.”

  Decoration Day

• “He had a great longing -- strange enough in that peaceful, sheep-raising neighborhood -- to go into the army; but he and his elder brother were the mainstay of their crippled father, and he could not be spared from the large household until a younger brother could take his place; so that all his fire and military zeal went for the present into martial tunes, and the fife was a safety-valve for his enthusiasm.”

  A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches

• “At the foot of each mast there is a contrivance for securing ropes, called the fife-rail.”

  Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat

• “The lyre (Tamboura) and a kind of fife with a dismal sound, made of the hollow Dhourra stalk, are the only instruments I saw, except the kettle-drum.”

  Travels in Nubia

• “But the next moment she heard the familiar sounds of a jig she knew well - "Half a Penny" - played on some kind of fife or pipe.”

  The Lark And The Wren

• “Ornaments and musical instruments employed in dances and religious ceremonies do not differ much among the Pueblo Indians; the principal ones being the drum, rattle, notched sticks, a kind of fife, and a turtle-shell rattle.”

  Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428

• “The day was spent in mirththe Lenni-Lenape nation and Jollity the soldiers paradingof the Delaware Valley marching with fife & Drum and Huzzaing as they passd the poles their hats adornd with white blossoms”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “The liberals 'overreach has awakened the sleeping giant known as The Silent Majority and they're suddenly amazed the American people aren't just dancing along merrily to the fife the Pied Piker (Obama) is playing.”

  Obama goes to health-care battlefront with N.H. town hall

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