Resource question: any musicians around here?

Thanks to who posted the link, I’ve spent far too much time on this website, where reproductions of various items from the 18th and 19th century are available – from clothes to mugs to toys to everything.

Among other precious things, I found reproductions of various flutes and fifes. Now here’s my question: the only instrument I’ve ever learned to play is this

(first one to laugh or crack some daft “blow” joke gets the Glare of Death, and by the way, I played this bloody thing REALLY well, so nyah!

Now I’ve fallen in love with this beautiful Rosewood Fife

and I wonder if I would be able to play it. Yes, both are flutes/fifes/fatever, but the piccolo looks far more complicated.

Anybody out there who could give me some information? Thanks in advance.