Vintage Higham Wooden Fife

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Vintage Higham Wooden Fife

Thsi Vintage Higham Wooden Fife is in a good playing order. It is high pitched Bb but it is possible to pull the tuning out to suit modern pitch if needed. There is a repaired crack in tuning section but this has been well done and doesn’t affect playability or the the looks of the instrument.

Joseph Higham, of all the provincial British firms of brass instrument makers, was the longestlasting and the most productive and innovative, energetically competing with the major London makers – Distin & Co (later Boosey & Co, and Boosey & Hawkes) and F. Besson (later Besson Co). The firm was established in Manchester by Joseph Higham in 1842 and operated independently until 1923, and then as a subsidiary until 1939.