FUJARA AND OTHER SLOVAK FLUTES - Richard Harvey 

I am very glad to see instrument made by me - 6-holes flute (píšťalka). Fujarka (small fujara) was made by Tibor Kobliček.

wherewer I mayy roam in the world, upon hearing that sound I am instantly transfered home

You play everything beautifully!

Please, sample this instrument, Orchestral Tools! 🙏

Keep 'em coming Richard!

Sounds tremendous Richard

Thanks for this very informative

Amazing

these instrument videos are great, I hope to see a library soon

wow love it! indeed very ghostly and suitable for film scoring. Just reached your channel looking for this instrument and I'm excited about this great content!

A simple hint. Just to be closer to slovak Fujara style, try improvisation in mixolydian mode. On G instrument start start by rozfuk, continue at upper D note and end at lower D note. Many foreigners play fujara in major scale ionian mode and this style sounds weird to traditionalists. Your play at koncovka was nice - you were forced to lydian mode by instrument limitation and you were pretty close to traditional play. I enjoyed your style at pistalka - not traditional, but impressive. I like it very much. Another hint: once you visit Slovakia, try to learn few folk songs. They are relatively simple, you can learn words and somebody can translate them for you. Those songs were composed and dedicated to limitations of traditional instruments. This can open you another dimension related to these flutes.

Excellent. Made my phone vibrate.

*Slovak, not Slovakian is the right adjective I love the echo effect. Fujara has always been my most favorite musical instrument, the sounds are simply transcending.

Do you publish collections of your favorite pieces in book form? I just bought a bansuri after listening to one of your videos. Love what you do with traditional flutes. I find myself hungry for a more earthy sound.

4:06 the flute is in the key of G(lowest note) like an alto G whistle, not in D Mr.Harvey

So when is the Richard Harvey range coming? Seems like a great way of having about a million inexpensive, small specialist libraries.

Very nice video, thank you, Just a little correction regarding pronunciation from Slovakia: Koncovka is supposed to be pronounced KonTSovka and NOT KonKovka. "Koniec" means "the end" in Slovak language and koncovka name is something like "the end one" (female grammatical gender, just like "a whistle" has).

Amazing how much reverb those slovakian flute makers can achieve...

The c in koncovka is pronounced 'ts', it comes from the slavic word for "end" (I guess because you play using the bottom). A cool overview :)

Is this the natural (untreated) sound of these flutes, or has a reverb effect been added to the recording?

Is the echo effect in the flutes itself? Or was the video edited to add the echo?

Aku baru melihat flute seperti ini. Aku sangat kagum dengan bentuk dan karakter suaranya. Kalau aku di kasih kesempatan buat memelikinya aku akan sangat senang dan aku akan belajar untuk untuk membunyikanya dan pasti aku akan menikmati suaranya

Hmm... Why so much digital echo??? Fujara has been used on the hills of Slovakia much longer then you state...

I ve heard the fujara in Romanian movies soundtracks ...there are Slovaks in Romania in the Carpathian mountains. I m wondering if fujiara may be a Dacian instrument. The far north of Romania was the territory of the free Dacians who were also called Getae. This name may have been mispronounced as Gothae--Goths. We know of this confusion in other sources.

Statement about 1 musical octave of fujara is wrong. The first octave between 1st and 2nd harmonic is too low, has only first 4 tones and is not used, but there are 2 musical octaves of major scale between 2nd and 8th harmonic, and several tones above as harmonics 9, 10, 11, 12. The 2 musical octaves are also fully chromatic (half steps), except 1 tone, for a G fujara missing tone is C#. That was solved by adding 4th hole above the top hole, on the opposite side of the tube, to control by my thumb. Now it can be played in any key, any kind of music. I promote fujara melodic playing , not use that majestic instrument for playing cheap sound effect, turning it into a musical toy! I have been teaching fujara every summer since 2011 at Common Ground on the Hill. Bob Rychlik

Thank you for this video but this fujara has terrible sound. You should get repair it.

Goths? Is there a historical evidence for this? As far I know Fujara (pronounced Fuyara not Fuyaaara) is endemic to central Slovakian region.

fujara and koncovka is more soul in central slovakia