Flute Lore http://www.flutelore.com/blog The best flute blog around Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:40:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en Two Dollar Flute From Jamestown http://www.flutelore.com/blog/13/two-dollar-flute-from-jamestown/ http://www.flutelore.com/blog/13/two-dollar-flute-from-jamestown/#comments Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:50:15 +0000 cliff Uncategorized http://www.flutelore.com/blog/13/two-dollar-flute-from-jamestown/ Recently, I visited Jamestown. In the gift shop I found some cheap bamboo fifes.
Jamestown Store
The visitor center

The Fifes were only 2.00, so I said, what the heck, and bought one.

Flutes in Bucket

Basket of ‘Bamboo Fifes’ in the shop
Flute in grass

An artistic picture of the unopened fife.

Then of course there was that gosh darn piece of fluff that kept on bothering my dog, so I says,
“Johny, You’ve got to…
oops, sorry, got a little off track there.

For a 2.00 fife, It plays surprisingly well. It has the same range as a six hole keyless fife ([It’s in the key of C] It has low D, E, F, G, A, B, C mid D, E, F, G, A, B, C, and High D, E, F, G, B. About 2 1/2 octaves. Here is a sound sample of the scale

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