Aulos C21 Fife Pipit

Perfect for the park or a rainy day. Has a nice pitch and seems very durable. Looks like a typical fife. Seems thick and durable for beginners. Looks professional.

As oitavas são mais faceis de executar . O som é mais bonito. Não é estridente .É feito de material resistente , lavável e fácil de levar na bolsa porque cabe em qualquer lugar. Veio bem embalado, com estojo , completo. Chegou antes do prazo.

Decent sound, but not great. Good for something to pass the time.

All the simplicity of the Yamaha fife, but a notch up on quality. Longer learning curve on the high notes than the Yamaha but sweeter richer tone. Indeed, can rival a concert flute for making a beautiful noise, all without a single valve, lever or spring.

It's not a fife. So if you want a fife, this is going to disappoint you. It plays tranverse like a fife, and the range is similar to a fife that might be in the key of C. But the fingering is almost identical to a soprano baroque recorder. Which brings me to another issue with the fingering. The fingering chart is simplified and requires some half holes. But this is really in order to oversimplify the fingering to make it perhaps less intimidating to beginners??? Because you can pretty much cross-finger these which makes it much easier to play faster passages (those are NOT in the fingering chart). Trying to go from A to Bb by half-holing is, um, not so easy to do quickly. But you can cross finger Bb just like on a recorder or a traverso flute. So I STRONGLY recommend googling the Aulos fingering chart for this instrument BEFORE buying so you know exactly what you are getting into. The playability is *eh*. It does play in tune much better than a real fife, which is a cylindrical simple system flute. But it really struggles in the high register and the mouth hole is incredibly sensitive so you really have to be spot on. After spending a couple months frustrated with this thing, I gave up and bought a Dixon DX008 D piccolo which is a simple system flute just like a real fife, but in the key of D and with less volume in exchange for more expressive playability. It was roughly the same price. After five minutes with that thing I was already playing twice as well as a few months with the Aulos fife (albeit with expected worse intonation than the Aulos because it is simple-system). For context, I'm "advanced" on the recorder and "intermediate" on the traverso ("baroque" or "one-keyed" flute). So it's not like I was approaching this thing as a total newbie. I will add, I do think VERY highly of Aulos. I own a now-retired Aulos soprano recorder, an Aulos tenor recorder, and the Aulos AF1 traverso flute is EXCELLENT. They really make great stuff. But this is trying to be an instrument that it is not. I will also mention that Yamaha makes a plastic fife. It is much like this one in almost every way. So if this review dissuades you because the Aulos isn't really a fife, don't run to the Yamaha because it isn't a fife either. That said, the build quality is what you would expect of Aulos, which is exceptional. I just think it is a flawed instrument. If Aulos made an actual fife or simple system D piccolo (almost the same thing) I'm sure it would be top notch. But this instrument is just a bad idea. So I'm giving it three stars. The build is very good. If this is the kind of instrument that you want, they it's great. But if you want a fife, this is not one. If you want something that will play fife/piccolo repetoir, this will do it, but it will be harder to finger than a fife or simple system piccolo. On the flip side, this design gives you better chromatic ability.