fujara
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The fujara () is a large wind instrument of the tabor pipe class. It originated in central Slovakia as a sophisticated folk shepherd's overtone fipple flute of unique design in the contrabass range.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Fujara
- Instrument.image
- Fujaro ludado tuta bildo.jpg
- Instrument.background
- woodwind
- Instrument.classification
- Aerophone
- Instrument.related
- Koncovka Tabor pipe Recorder Willow flute Kalyuka
- Intangible heritage.ICH
- Fujara and its music
- Intangible heritage.State Party
- Slovakia
- Intangible heritage.ID
- 00099
- Intangible heritage.Region
- ENA
- Intangible heritage.Year
- 2008
- Intangible heritage.Session
- 3rd
- Intangible heritage.List
- Representative
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Described at
Fujara and its music - UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
ich.unesco.org →In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Fujara became known and appreciated beyond the shepherds’ use. Through festivals, the instrument played by musicians from the Podpol’anie region gained recognition and popularity throughout Slovakia.The Fujara is played at various occasions throughout the year, but mainly from spring to autumn, by professional musicians and a few remaining shepherds performing at festivals. During recent decades the Fujara is increasingly played at special events. The communist era and the political developments in the 1990s have caused significant social, cultural and economic changes and especially young people have become estranged from traditional folk art. Individual initiatives, however, have been trying to safeguard the Fujara and the knowledge and skills related to it.
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- Image
- Fujaro ludado tuta bildo.jpg
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- Commons category
- Fujara
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 421.211.12
- described at URL
- ich.unesco.org/es/RL/00099
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The fujara () is a large wind instrument of the tabor pipe class. It originated in central Slovakia as a sophisticated folk shepherd's overtone fipple flute of unique design in the contrabass range.
Ranging from 160 to 200 cm long (5'3" – 6'6") and tuned in A, G, or F. It has three tone holes (also called finger holes) located on the lower part of the main body. The sound is produced by a fipple at the upper end of the main body of the fujara. The air is led to the fipple through a smaller parallel pipe, called vzduchovod in Slovak (meaning "air channel"), mounted on the main body of the instrument. While it is possible to play the fundamental frequency on fujaras, the normal playing technique is based on overblowing the instrument. Because of the high aspect ratio of the sound chamber (great length versus small internal diameter), the player can use overtones to play a diatonic scale using only the three tone holes. The fujara is typically played while standing, with the instrument held vertically and usually braced against the right thigh.