Fife

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What Wikipedia says

A fife ( FYFE) is a small, high-pitched, transverse aerophone, that is similar to the piccolo. The fife originated in medieval Europe and is often used in fife and drum corps, military units, and marching bands. Someone who plays the fife is called a fifer.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Fife (instrument)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Édouard Manet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.