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Luckiduc13
05-28-2008, 11:25 AM
I just recently purchased this photo on Ebay. I have not seen many pictures of fifers.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e62/Luckiduc13/Civil%20War%20fifer/fifer.jpg
yeoman
06-05-2008, 10:01 AM
Sir, I find your Carte de Visite interesting in several ways, his coat has a nice cuff detail along with the collar. Is that a corps badge or medal he has over his left breast? I can't tell what sort of brasses (if any) he is using, and can you tell what accouterment is on his belt. Nice photo to share, thanks.
1812FieldMusik
07-02-2008, 01:09 AM
It almost looks like some sort of fife case! I haven't ever seen leather fife cases in period images...
ThehosGendar
07-03-2008, 02:17 PM
Looks to me like the edge of fringed photographer's chair! Wicked awesome image, though.

Isn't that a Model F he's holding?! :tounge_sm
JKfifer119
07-03-2008, 05:37 PM
Looks to me like the edge of fringed photographer's chair! Wicked awesome image, though.

Isn't that a Model F he's holding?! :tounge_sm


hmm.... I will say this though...a quick recreation sitting, in a chair with fifes on hand... I bet thats a "c" fife
trying to recreat his positioning I found the b flat fife came up higher, the "c" seems to fit the bill


very cool picture
Luckiduc13
07-08-2008, 03:39 PM
I too believe it is a "C" Firth and Pond. The ferrules look as if they are long as that model commonly had.
yeoman
07-14-2008, 01:48 AM
Sir, was wondering if you had received your CDV and could you make out whats on his coat? Sir,as I take notice I also believe he is on a chair. If I may leave a small quote from Francis A. Lords "Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia" on the fife. "There was no finer inspiration for the men at the front than the first burst, crash, and roll of reveille, when a good fife and drum corps, with melodious shrill fifes rallied upon the color line and roused an entire regiment. The effect was intensified when, in a great army stretching out for miles, a single bugle-note gave the signal, and then, as by magic, from every direction broke out the accelerating roll of drums, the screech of fifes and the blare of bugles".