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I'll be brief: What are the differences between a fife (as in 18th-19th c. American fifes) and a keyless Irish flute? Is it possible to learn to play a fife/flute without a teacher? I recently started playing around w/ pennywhistles. Yesterday I pulled out a flute (?) that I bought years ago at an a...

I've been trying the whistle only since July this year. I have not yet sought out a teacher. There are many resources on the web, especially the people of C&F, and I learn something almost every day (Sometimes, what I learn at C&F even has something to do with whistles.) If I'm still at it i...

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Roger

Hey yous guys give it up pipes an whistles don't mix I have made no postings to this august Forum bercause I am very much a novice whistler - 3 weeks ago I would not have known a fipple from a truffle - and it was obviously in everyone's interest that I sit back, shut up and learn. However, when it...

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