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Fujara flutes:

• FS FuYara
  • FS FuYara in 2 parts
  • FS FuYara in 3 parts
  • FS FuYara, lathe-turned
• FS Fujaridoo
  • Fujaridoo natural
  • Fujaridoo lathe-turned
• Overtone Rich
• Fine Melodic
• Natural Beauty
• Copper Inlaid
• Deep cut

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Shepherd Pipes:

• overtone flute
• whistle (6-hole)
• double whistle

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There is very long tradition of shepherd pipe crafting in Slovakia. Over centuries developed several kinds of folk shepherd's whistles from which the most popular are:

• Overtone flute ("Koncovka", read [kontsovka]) - duct fipple flute fashioned from a single piece of wood, bored out and plugged at one end. It is end blown, has no finger holes and is one to two feet in length. It is played by covering and uncovering of the bottom hole while blowing it at different strengths.
  Overtone flute is longer than standard whistle, from 50 cm (key of E) up to 90 cm (key of G).
• 6-hole whistle - six hole fipple flute similar in construction to Irish whistle. In Slovakia called shepherd's whistle. It can be tuned to major or minor scale of these keys: A, G, F, E, D, C, H with lengths from 25 cm (key of H) up to 60 cm (key of A).
• Double whistle - combination of 6-hole whistle and koncovka in the same tuning. One pipe is classical shepherd pipe with six holes on which the main melody is played. The other pipe does not have holes at all and it enriches the main melody by its 2 overtone base tones - it can be played like koncovka too.

Shipping costs (1 to 8 shepherd pipes):

• EUR 20 (neighboring countries)
• EUR 26 (EU, USA, Canada)
• EUR 43 (pacific region)

Listen to audio samples of shepherd pipes made by Folkart Slovakia (FS) :

• song1 in major
• song2 in major
• song3 in minor
• song4 in lidic scale

• scale major
• lydic scale
• shepherd pipe - vocal mic
• Double shepherd pipe - vocal mic