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How is the Fujara flute played?Fujara is played STANDING. The Fujara flute is blown into the mouthpiece at the lower end of the smaller Fujara flute wind pipe. Fujara flute is in principle played like end-blown
fipple flute,
where the player doesn't need to know how to blow across an embouchure. Fujara flute is NOT played like transverse flutes, e.g. Silver flute, Japanese Shakuhachi or Bulgarian Kaval by blowing across a wind hole. How can I learn to play the Fujara flute?First learn how to stand and hold your Fujara flute. Yes, fujara is usually played standing, holding the flute vertically. As soon as you will find the right and comfortable possition, you can start sound the first notes. Don’t attempt to cover holes with the fingertips, but rather use the ‘pads’ of the first joint of your thumb and middle fingers - it is very important to cover all the holes completely, avoiding any air-leakage. Fujara has 3 holes (vents) and the height of tone is decided mainly by the strength of in-blown air achieving thus various overtones. Fujara overtone overblowing (breathing-like) playing technique feels very natural and is easy to learn for anybody. Moreover, every Fujara overtone fipple flute is by its rich spectrum of overtones naturaly tuned to itself so its harmonic scale feels very natural too. How can I play the fujara scale?Fujara has range of over three octaves. In its two middle octaves Fujara is capable to play western diatonic scale: See the fingering diagrams of these two middle octaves. To play the fujara scale is essential to cover all the holes completely without any air-leakage. Fingering is used mostly in the lower bass series (lower three octaves) while on the other hand the fourth, highest fujara octave is played purely by overblowing the overtones where the height of tone is decided by the sthrenght of the inblown air. Thus the fourth - highest fujara octave is not tuned to western diatonic scale while it is created purely by overtones and in fact represent an "overtone (harmonic) " scale. The higher in fujara scale one goes, the less important becomes the fingering and on contrary more important becomes the precise sthrenght of the inblown air by overblowing the flute's overtones. How should I regulate my breath to hit the "right" note?Any tone in the fujara scale is a precise combination of the right fingering and the right strenght of inblown air. Good excercise is sounding the ascending / descending series of fujara harmonics/overtones which share the closed fingering (all 3 holes closed) - described here.
How can I play Fujara characterist ornaments?"Scatter" and "Whoosh" are specific Fujara ornaments where whole fujara spectrum is sounded at one time. They are usually played with all 3 fingering holes covered completely. Scatter is a high-intensity ornament particular to the fujara overtone flute that is often used at the beginning of songs. It begins with a high-itensity, repeated percussive blow that can be made by saying something like "DA DA DA Da Da Da da da da ..." Where the pressure of each "Da" gets less and less and the fujara descends through the overtone scale. Throat tuning ?written by Adam Simmons The throat tuning thing - this concept comes from Robert Dick, probably the contemporary flautist in the world. I'm not sure if it completely complements the fujara but I think its helping me. What follows is my understanding and interpretation of it: |
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