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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

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

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2020

A soundtrack absent of bagpipes, fife and drums and marching bands.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 18, 2020

As the man struck a martial tattoo on his drum, another man in period costume began playing a fife and leading Heather’s class in circles outside George Washington’s iconic white-columned home.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2017

Las Casas, a conquistador who repented of his actions and became a priest, spent the second half of his long fife opposing European cruelty in the Americas.

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

The drums marched ahead, and there was music on the fifes, and behind the men who carried the coffin walked the wife and two children....

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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 Rafael Sabatini

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 Ellis Spear

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

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

In the foreground is the “Portsmouth Fly,” with officers inside, taking their ease, and a number of soldiers occupying a precarious perch on the roof, fifing and drumming, regardless of jolts and lurches.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Orioles, to be sure, after a month of silence, again have fits of merry fifing.

From The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey

"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

By-and-by, while I was yet sobbing and disconsolate, I heard the drumming and fifing which heralded the appearance of the Corps Dramatique on the outer platform.

From In the Days of My Youth by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards