Fife Flyers

Fife Flyers Ice Hockey Club are the oldest professional ice hockey club in the UK, established in 1938. The Flyers play their home games out of Fife Ice Arena, Kirkcaldy which has a capacity of just under 3400 (seated and standing). The Arena is home to not only the Fife Flyers who play in the EIHL (Elite Ice Hockey League, as seen on Premier Sports) but also to Kirkcaldy Junior Ice Hockey Club. With many of the Flyers players coming up through the junior ranks and now playing at a professional level. Both the Arena and the club are extremely proud of their home grown talent.

Ice hockey has successfully been a part of the Fife community since the Flyers inaugural season in 1938. The sport and the team have a great heritage in the East Coast and Fife region.

The Flyers have put together a team of top players from the UK, Europe and North America. The Flyers joined the EIHL in 2011. The current Head Coach is Canadian Todd Dutiaume. Associate Coach is Danny Stewart. Stewart also coached the Newcastle Vipers, winning EIHL Coach of the Year in 2010/11. Stewart also played for EIHL side the Coventry Blaze, and is the current title holder of most games player, by an import, since the EIHL began. Having played more than 570 games.

Fife

Fife ([ˈfəif]; Scottish Gaelic: Fìobha) is a council area and historic county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. By custom it is widely held to have been one of the major Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland.

It is a lieutenancy area, and was a county of Scotland until 1975. It was very occasionally known by the anglicisation Fifeshire in old documents and maps compiled by English cartographers and authors. A person from Fife is known as a Fifer.

Fife was a local government region divided into three districts: Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and North-East Fife. Since 1996 the functions of the district councils have been exercised by the unitary Fife Council.

Fife is Scotland's third largest local authority area by population. It has a resident population of just under 367,000, almost a third of whom live in the three principal towns of Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes.

Fife (instrument)

A fife /ˈfaɪf/ is a small, high-pitched, transverse flute, that is similar to the piccolo, but louder and shriller due to its narrower bore. The fife originated in medieval Europe and is often used in military and marching bands. Someone who plays the fife is called a fifer. The word fife comes from the German Pfeife, or pipe, which comes from the Latin word pipare.

The fife is a simple instrument usually consisting of a tube with 6 finger holes, and diatonically tuned. Some have 10 or 11 holes for added chromatics. The fife also has an embouchure hole, across which the player blows, and a cork or plug inside the tube just above the embouchure hole. Some nineteenth-century fifes had a key pressed by the little finger of the right hand in place of a seventh finger hole.

Fifes are made mostly of wood: grenadilla, rosewood, mopane, pink ivory, cocobolo, boxwood and other dense woods are superior; maple and persimmon are inferior but often used. Some Caribbean music makes use of bamboo fifes.

Fife (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Fife elected commissioners to represent them in the Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates.

After 1708, Fife was represented by one Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons at Westminster.

List of shire commissioners

During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, the sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross were jointly represented by one Member of Parliament in the Protectorate Parliament at Westminster. After the Restoration, the Parliament of Scotland was again summoned to meet in Edinburgh.

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