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instruments
Musical instruments
The art of making traditional musical instruments is a peculiar one as the main goal of its outcome is to keep the tradition of making music alive. The instruments, in addition to their role of sustaining the non-material culture making, are also material representations of the aesthetics and technical development of the cultures they were born in (or assimilated into) and they can be regarded as the key to understanding unrecorded, archaic sounds and musical techniques...
The art of making traditional musical instruments is a peculiar one as the main goal of its outcome is to keep the tradition of making music alive. The instruments, in addition to their role of sustaining the non-material culture making, are also material representations of the aesthetics and technical development of the cultures they were born in (or assimilated into) and they can be regarded as the key to understanding unrecorded, archaic sounds and musical techniques...
2010-01-03 | read more...
Detvian fujara (pastoral fujara, Slovak fujara, fujara)
At about 2 metres in length, fujara is the largest of yhe class of instruments known as pipes. It consists of the main pipe, usually made of elderberry wood (Sambucus nigra), 3-10 cm in diameter, but sometimes other kinds of wood are used. It has three finger holes, a mouth hole located in the additional shorter pipe. The additional pipe is connected to the main one by a short connecting element, also made of wood...
At about 2 metres in length, fujara is the largest of yhe class of instruments known as pipes. It consists of the main pipe, usually made of elderberry wood (Sambucus nigra), 3-10 cm in diameter, but sometimes other kinds of wood are used. It has three finger holes, a mouth hole located in the additional shorter pipe. The additional pipe is connected to the main one by a short connecting element, also made of wood...
2010-01-03 | read more...
Gajdica
This instrument can be found in but one region of Slovakia, its origins being widely disputed. The first musican to play and build gajdicas was Andrej Mizerak (1897-1977) from Lúčky-Potoky, Eatern Slovakia. A number of publications on the instrument, including research papers and books, have been in circulation. A CD of Mizerak's archival recordings, entitled Andej Mizerak a jeho gajdica, is available...
This instrument can be found in but one region of Slovakia, its origins being widely disputed. The first musican to play and build gajdicas was Andrej Mizerak (1897-1977) from Lúčky-Potoky, Eatern Slovakia. A number of publications on the instrument, including research papers and books, have been in circulation. A CD of Mizerak's archival recordings, entitled Andej Mizerak a jeho gajdica, is available...
2010-01-03 | read more...