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Piccolo vs Fife - What's the difference?

piccolo | fife |

As nouns the difference between piccolo and fife

is that piccolo is an instrument similar to a flute, but smaller, and playing an octave higher while fife is a small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.

As a verb fife is

to play this instrument.

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.

piccolo

English

(wikipedia piccolo)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (musici) An instrument similar to a flute, but smaller, and playing an octave higher.
  • A waiter's assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
  • * 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Soul of Laploshka’, Reginald in Russia :
    • as I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo – out of his two francs.
  • A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 liters of fluid, 1/4 the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or snipe.

    • Derived terms

    * piccoloist

    fife

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

    • Verb

    (fif)
  • To play this instrument.

    • Anagrams

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