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Part of the problem I found was to do with the thin walls of the 12 inch CPVC. To learn to play it its much easier if someone who already knows how to play helps you find the correct position for your mouth and for the fife.
The G flute works great as is but I was having a lot more trouble playing the fife.
Fife instrument how to play. Holding and Blowing into the Fife. Hold the instrument out to your right. Position the fife so that it is horizontal and extending out to the right of your face.
The six holes for fingers should be out to the right while the one hole on its own goes near your mouth for blowing. Place your hands correctly. Fife is much more difficult to play than the regular wooden flute - it takes a very strong embouchure.
Your lips need to be tight - try putting a piece of dry rice between your lips and blow until it pops out Im seriousthis will give you an idea how small the hole in your lips needs to be. The vast majority of fifers today play a one piece 6-hole Bb fife and that is what most vendors sellthe C fife and two piece concert fifes that allow you to play more notes are specialty items. If you get a C fife its best if everyone else in your group has one too.
The pitch of a fife is proportional to the distance from the inside surface of the cork and the end of the fife. The closer the cork is moved toward the blow hole the sharper it gets. The farther away the cork is moved the flatter the sound produced.
However it is not that simple. Recorderfife as a beginners instrument. I have the goal to learn to play the flute someday in my life but I cant really seem to match classes and so on with my free time right now due to jobproject specifics.
In the inability to have classes but having the desire to start practicing something Im considering alternatives as stepping stones. If air isnt blown into the instrument slowly when playing low-pitched notes the sound waves are prone to rebound on themselves. Try playing while breathing slowly with the body relaxed.
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Mouth positioned properly to play this instrument. Flute teachers tell their beginning students to position the mouth right on the blow-hole as if you were to kiss it and then roll the fife down the lower lip until you get a good clear sound when you blow. Another good hint is.
Cut 8 large circumference straws to the following lengths. 9 8 7 6 38 5 ¾ 5 4 ½ 4 ¼ inches long. This will make an octave.
For your info cut off a bit more straw to make the note higher to tune the fife. Cut a piece of cardboard two inches wide and the same length as the width of the 8 straws. Check out my Instruments on Amazon.
The original intended use of the fife was as a military flute for signaling and to accompany marching. And as such it may be heard today accompanied by drums in reenactments of revolutionary and civil war battles and in commemorative or patriotic events. It was said that a fife could be heard several miles away over artillery fire.
The fife and recorder are simplistic versions of the flute share many of the same note fingerings and are easy to play. Like the flute the fife is held across the body and air is blown across the lip hole meaning you get a head start at forming the mouth position also needed for playing the flute. The pitch is more like that of a piccolo.
I made a G flute as originally designed and a CPVC D fife to which I also made a modified version. The G flute works great as is but I was having a lot more trouble playing the fife. It was very difficult to reach into the second octave.
Part of the problem I found was to do with the thin walls of the 12 inch CPVC. The MCM 10-hole fife has gone above my expectations and proudly represents a quality high profile instrument. Not only is the fife carefully well-crafted this fife stands up perfectly to other 10-hole model fifes on the market.
The hole sizes allow for louder than. The recorder is the first step in that evolution and it takes steps towards normalizing C major by extending the instrument to low C operated by the pinky of the bottom hand–we now always play with the left hand on top but originally either way was common and by shrinking the tone holes so that cross fingerings work. To learn to play it its much easier if someone who already knows how to play helps you find the correct position for your mouth and for the fife.
But it can be done by yourself. Hold the fife so that the mouth piece rests just below your bottom lip with the mouth hole facing up and the finger holes on the right. I do have a fife-like-instrument tuned in D by Ralph Sweet which i play regularly and pretend its a piccolo.
Whenever i look at the gorgeous model F fife at that page i mention above less than US100 i start sallivating and my hand starts going towards the credit card until i slap myself a couple of times and say you dont need. 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 youll fine. Fifer330 0028 18 June 2007 UTC.
Answer 1 of 6. I have been playing flute for six years now in concert band and two years in marching band and to my understanding yes as long as the fife is in the key of C. If my research of the fife is correct it is a more shrill version of the piccolo having similar ranges.
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