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ccolo has a complicated arrangement of metal keys. But this was not always so. The oldest piccolos were not transverse flutes at all. They were French instruments called flageolets or flauto piccolo in Italian, and much more like sapranino recorders, blown like a whistle, some with keys and some without. And they were made, of course, from wood. A fife, on the other hand, is much like a modern wooden piccolo, except with only six holes and without keys (Fifes also come in metal). You'll see this instrument in lots of Revolutionary War re-enactments. For some reason back then soldiers liked high-pitched woodwind instruments.