The frilka ( uk, Фрілка) is a more perfected form of the

sopilka Sopilka (, uk, Cопiлка) is a name applied to a variety of woodwind instruments of the flute family used by Ukrainian folk instrumentalists. ''Sopilka'' most commonly refers to a fife made of a variety of materials (but traditionally out of ...

, a traditional Ukrainian flute. The frilka is a smaller version of the

floyarka The floyarka ( uk, Флоярка) is a type of sopilka, a traditional Ukrainian flute. It is characterized as an open-ended notched flute. The floyarka is a larger version of the frilka. The floyarka is a pipe of approximately a 30 cm in lengt ...

. The frilka is characterized as an open-ended

notched flute The end-blown flute (also called an edge-blown flute or rim-blown flute) is a woodwind instrument played by directing an airstream against the sharp edge of the upper end of a tube. Unlike a recorder or tin whistle, there is not a ducted flue ...

. 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. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...

. Shepherds were also able to accompany themselves with glutteral humming which produced an ostinato tone or drone. The frilka is often called a

or sometimes

zubivka The zubivka ( uk, Зубівка, hu, Beregfogaras) also known as a (Skosivka, Skisna Dudka, or Frukanka). The zubivka is considered one of the oldest folk wind instruments in Ukraine and is found primarily in the Carpathian region. It was fir ...

in central

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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.

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{{Flutes End-blown flutes Ukrainian musical instruments

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