Unique Slovak musical instrument draws attention abroad, also thanks to Czechoslovak expatriate Bob Rychlik. The fujara is an iconic musical instrument from Slovakia, with a unique sound. It is up to ...

TWO years ago, on his 25th birthday, Tomáš Kováč received a fujara. He started browsing the internet to get some information about this wind instrument, but there was nothing. Quite disappointed, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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