Fife and drum corps
（重定向自Fife and drum）
![A drum and fife corps from the American Civil War.](/Images/godic/202501/13/CivilWarFifeandDrum5626.jpg")
A Fife and Drum Corps is a musical ensemble that consists of flutes or fifes and drums. In the United States, fife and drum corps specializing in colonial period impressions with wooden fifes and wooden rope tension snare drums and bass drums are known as Ancient Fife and Drum Corps. These ensembles originated as at type of military field music.