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 ...

Common Ground on the Hill instructor Bob Rychlik taught a handful of students to play the fujara and koncovka, a pair of overtone flutes — instruments with minimal or no tone holes, allowing ...

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 ...

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 ...