Pife bands

Pife also called fife, is a kind of flute made of bamboo, bone, mamoeira stem or even PVC. The Fife Band is a set of wind instruments and percussion, which are basically zabumba box (snare drum) cymbal and two pifes. In the northeast the band pife came from a junction of several Brazilian cultural elements, with many folk traits and settled the northeast as music for events in churches.

Formerly the Pife bands presented themselves in Christian events to welcome religious, today there is this culture intertwined in religious events, but Pife bands currently makes their presentations at fairs, cultural events, among others.

With the passage of time has also been modified instruments also make up the band pife the triangle and accordion, forming sets foot-saw and takes the joy of the interior of the people to other parts of the world.

The fife was also highlighted in his appearances in such movies as A Dog's Will (Portuguese: O Auto da Compadecida, which literally means "The Act of the Compassionate) n the following link, there is the famous Presepada music, which is a major feature of the movie:

The art of production fife and their presentations, carry ancestral traits, from production that came from indigenous to date with the production of João do Pife, which carries this generation of culture generation interview with João do Pife “John's Pife” in Portuguese:

This cultural representation is more an expression of provincial reality of the city of Caruaru, even with modernity, still carries cultural traits of many, many years ago and this is what differentiates this city so rich culturally.

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