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“Death to My Hometown” carried a faint whiff of Revolutionary War cosplay as several E Streeters temporarily became a miniature fife and drum corps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

There was a “Spirit of ’76”—three men with fife and drum.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2020

A soundtrack absent of bagpipes, fife and drums and marching bands.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 18, 2020

“Reenactors are always disappointed when they can’t cross, but safety is always the most important thing,” Smith said by phone as a fife and drum played in the background.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 25, 2017

I suppose I wanted to bring her back to fife.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Then the “sounds of Nazi marches with fifes and drums came through the radio.”

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2025

His supporters, some dressed as American Revolution-era patriots and playing fifes, were thrilled by Ramaswamy’s turn in the spotlight Wednesday night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

Look for fifes and drums, decorated automobiles, tractor-pulled floats, marching dance teams and pageant winners.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2022

You heard the muffled drums and the fifes that played lowly.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2017

The band played, and even though there were more fifes, clarinets, and flutes than booms and brass, Fern held on to Pa tighter.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Unlike the buccaneers, who had fired high to cripple their enemies above decks, the French fifed low to smash the hull of their assailant.

From Captain Blood by Sabatini, Rafael

A drum corps was organized, if that could be said to be organized in which every member drummed or fifed independently of all others.

From The Story of the Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the District of Columbia, War Papers 46 by Spear, Ellis

He let himself be drummed and fifed home by the town militia towards evening.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

So I was, and I voted for him, drummed for him, fifed and blowed; that was no reason for my thinking him the best man we had for the office.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

The city fathers have decked out some of Boston's sons in Revolutionary costumes and sent them roaming through the streets fifing and drumming.

From Time Magazine Archive

Keeping step to Luther Blanchard’s fifing of the White Cockade, and Francis Barker’s drumming, they marched past the men from Concord and formed on their left.

From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Coffin, Charles Carleton

Up from the East river come the 130 sounds of orderly drummers drumming, of regimental fifers fifing.

From The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution by Prichard, Sarah J.

Now they had prepared a little fleet to pass over to the Fourth of July celebration, which some queer drumming and fifing, from, the opposite bank, had announced to be "on hand."

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.

No pomp, no fireworks, no cannon-shot, no drumming and fifing, no music, no event that had occurred!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas