fife
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The two presidents celebrated the “ironclad alliance” amid fife and drums on the White House lawn ahead of their 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
Here camp and its covert campaign of subversion feel wonderfully urgent and necessary: the gap-toothed fife player in the march toward “nonbinary.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2019
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
He did tell us of the great orchestra which played at the court of the Alafin, the Emperor of Oyo, for which Olakunde’s father had played the fife.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing fife
Music to My Ears: Instrumental Vocab
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