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“Death to My Hometown” carried a faint whiff of Revolutionary War cosplay as several E Streeters temporarily became a miniature fife and drum corps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol celebrated their “ironclad alliance” Wednesday amid fife and drums on the White House lawn ahead of high-level meetings and a state dinner.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

There was a “Spirit of ’76”—three men with fife and drum.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2020

Giroud, by the way, has his head taped like he had to put down his fife and drum to come on.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2018

In addition, the image of a seagoing people fits into a general rethinking of paleo-Indian fife.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Then the “sounds of Nazi marches with fifes and drums came through the radio.”

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2025

His supporters, some dressed as American Revolution-era patriots and playing fifes, were thrilled by Ramaswamy’s turn in the spotlight Wednesday night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

You heard the muffled drums and the fifes that played lowly.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2017

Mindy Rosenfeld and Ronn McFarlane will perform a concert of Renaissance, baroque and traditional Celtic music on flutes, fifes, harp and bagpipe.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2013

We heard the whistle of fifes on the green and the rattle of cheap drums.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

So I was, and I voted for him, drummed for him, fifed and blowed; that was no reason for my thinking him the best man we had for the office.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

Unlike the buccaneers, who had fired high to cripple their enemies above decks, the French fifed low to smash the hull of their assailant.

From Captain Blood by Sabatini, Rafael

A drum corps was organized, if that could be said to be organized in which every member drummed or fifed independently of all others.

From The Story of the Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the District of Columbia, War Papers 46 by Spear, Ellis

He let himself be drummed and fifed home by the town militia towards evening.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

The city fathers have decked out some of Boston's sons in Revolutionary costumes and sent them roaming through the streets fifing and drumming.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the left flank of the little column I kept very easily in touch because of this same silly drumming and fifing.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Now they had prepared a little fleet to pass over to the Fourth of July celebration, which some queer drumming and fifing, from the opposite bank, had announced to be "on hand."

From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Fuller, Margaret

Really, the fifing and drumming must have effected a profound alteration in your convictions.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Bierce, Ambrose

"Agreed; hang by 'em, give 'em a blast, first opening, and while you are fifing away for me, I'll go around for you, Captain Johns."

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge