This boxwood fife is very old indeed. It was made around 1780–90 by one of London’s famous instrument-making families – the Cahusacs.It has certainly stood the test of time marvellously –the boxwood looks wonderful, the tone-holes perfect and the embouchure intact. It has a new head cork. It even has...
This antique boxwood fife was made by James JORDAN (1807/8-1852). James Jordan was born in Ireland. At some point, he travelled to Liverpool. He started a new life in England. He was listed as a musical instrument maker and woodwind dealer from around 1830. James Jordan was also an inventor....
Here is a nice boxwood fife made by the London firm Goulding & Co. The company was created by George GOULDING (1759-1814) in around 1785 and started out in music publishing.A fife is a cylindrically bored transverse flute. It is normally made in one piece or sometimes two and tends...
Let’s go back in time to 1778…England was under the reign of George III and in the midst of the American Revolutionary war. Amongst the fighting on the battlefields, the shrill, high sound of a fife could be heard…Here we have a unique and extremely rare fife. A fife is...
