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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...