About Fujara flute

Fujara is an absolutely unique hand made overtone fipple flute and one cannot find similar anywhere but in Slovakia.

The fujara is a large folk shepherd's flute of unique design. It is technically a contrabass instrument in the tabor pipe class. Typically 150 to 170 cm long, tuned in G (A and F are other possiblities). It has three tone holes located on the lower part of the main body. The sound is produced by a fipple on the upper end of the main body of the fujara. The air is led to the fipple by a smaller parallel pipe, called a Slovak: vzduchovod, meaning air channel.

Even though on almost all fujaras the fundamental frequency can be played, the normal playing technique is based on overblowing the instrument.
Because of its size, the overtones enable the ability to play a diatonic scale using only the three tone holes.

Traditionally, the fujara was played for recreation. Today though, the fujara has moved from the fields to the stage.

The fujara was included in the UNESCO list of Masterpieces of the oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, on November 25, 2005.

If there is a possibility, we in the Society of Milan Rúfus friends welcome the fujarasoud as a complement or even an improvement of our poetryreading.

In our video you can see and hear Marian Plavec play the instrument. show the video