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The term apparently derives from the location where the ship's fifer would sit and play his fife at heaving of the ship's anchor.
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Along with this new fife a number of fingering changes were suggested to take full advantage of the improved design.
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Fife later showed that hydrox would allow divers to descend and work at great depths.
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Bands of fifes and drums were regularly at the head of regimental parades and ceremonies of the infantry regiments.
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According to some reports, a band of fifes and drums can be heard up to 3 miles away over artillery fire.
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These fifes were not otherwise available to the public.
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In the following playing time 20013/2014 the sharks finished the main round on rank fife.
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The fife was a wooden pipe with six finger holes used with the drum in marching formations.
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This tuning irregularity is part of the unique sound of the fife.
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Some nineteenth-century fifes had a key pressed by the little finger of the right hand in place of a seventh finger hole.
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