When the reverb is out of this world... Being a curiously inclined species, musicians have long been fascinated with the possibilities of playing their instruments inside cooling towers. (Just listen ...

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 ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Common Ground on the Hill instructor Bob Rychlik taught a handful of students to play the fujara 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 ...

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 ...