The fujara is an iconic musical instrument from Slovakia, with a unique sound. It is up to a 6-feet high fipple overtone flute with 3 lateral openings and a parallel smaller tube, which supplies air ...

Alexander Králik, the manufacturer of musical folk instruments is well known throughout the Banská Bystrica Region. He started playing the fujara, a traditional Slovak overtone flute, in the 1980s ...

The Fujara, an extremely long flute with three finger holes traditionally played by Slovak shepherds, is regarded as an integral part of the traditional culture of Central Slovakia. It is not just a ...

MOUNT AIRY — As a teen in communist Czechoslovakia, Bohuslav “Bob” Rychlik played American folk and acoustic blues music on a banjo. Forty years later, he is an American citizen who promotes and ...

A fujara is (wait for it…) a large Slovak folk shepherd’s overtone fipple flute. Still not sure what it is? Here’s a bit more detail: the fujara is essentially a large woodwind instrument, in the same ...

What is it about the flute that captivates our being? The legendary Sufi thinker Hazrat Inayat Khan, who wrote extensively on ‘Brahma Naad’ or ‘Sawt Surmad,’ the primordial sound, explained that it ...

Imagine a flute that sounds like a recorder mixed with a Theremin, meets Jimi Hendrix’s guitar and a didgeridoo. This is the sound of the Slovak fujara and koncovka, the instruments of choice for ...

The fujara, the long traditional flute of Slovak shepherds, has gained world recognition by being listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) as a ...

When Veronika Vitázková published a video in which she plays the didgeridoo, her critics accused her of disrespecting the sacred instrument of the aboriginal people of Australia. She heard similar ...

As a dreamy, insomniac child, I often fantasised about my fairytale storybooks coming alive and my being able to lose my way in a verdant wilderness, playing with squirrels and sparrows that spoke a ...

A fujara is (wait for it…) a large Slovak folk shepherd’s overtone fipple flute. Still not sure what it is? Here’s a bit more detail: the fujara is essentially a large woodwind instrument, in the same ...