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 ...

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 ...

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 ...