The frilka () is a more perfected form of the
sopilka, a traditional Ukrainian flute. The frilka is a smaller version of the
floyarka.
The frilka is characterized as an open-ended
notched flute. It is a pipe of approximately a 20 cm (8 inches) in length. One end is sharpened and the breath is broken against one of the sides of the tube at the playing end. Six holes (now often 10) in groups of three are burnt out in the center of the instrument.
It was often played at funerals in the
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ural Mountains, Urals at and the Scandinav ...
. Shepherds were also able to accompany themselves with glutteral humming which produced an ostinato tone or drone.
The frilka is often called a
floyarka or sometimes
zubivka in central
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
.
See also
*
Ukrainian folk music
Sources
*Humeniuk, A. - ''Ukrainski narodni muzychni instrumenty'' - Kyiv: Naukova dumka, 1967
*Mizynec, V. - ''Ukrainian Folk Instruments'' - Melbourne: Bayda books, 1984
*Cherkaskyi, L. - ''Ukrainski narodni muzychni instrumenty'' // Tekhnika, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2003 - 262 pages.
External links
Samples and Pictures of Ukrainian Instruments
{{Flutes
End-blown flutes
Ukrainian musical instruments