As verbs the difference between fife and fixe

is that fife is to play this instrument while fixe is archaic form of lang=en.

As a noun fife

is a small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.

As a proper noun Fife

is a traditional county of Scotland now a Unitary Authority, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.