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Pear Flute (sopilka) (high-quality handmade)
Pear Flute (sopilka) (high-quality handmade)
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Officially in the USA. Sopilki / flutes of the most famous master from Ukraine Taras Loshak. Our fluete sounded at the Eurovision Song Contest . They are used by many popular ethnic musicians of the big stages as KAZKA, ONUKA etc...
Taras is the only flute maker in the third generation.
Ukrainian Flute (woodwind instrument of the flute family), melnytska modernized, prima, chromatic,
ordinary, C major, soprano, ten holes
Hand-made with the application of modern technologies
Pear wood
Length 32 cm
Made of 30-40-years old pear grown on the territory of Bolekhiv forestry in the Carpathians. The staff is
kept for five years, then boiled on firewood in a special mixture of food alkane hydrocarbons and sunflower oil for 48
hours and then dried for half a year on a “warm floor”.
Its characteristic feature is a clear ringing sound.
Tuning is accomplished with the help of a computer digital tuner.
Polishing is done 3-4 times with sanding clothes having different grit size.
Then sopilka is put away for two
weeks and after that is polished again 2-3 times with a fine grit cloth. The final polishing is done with a hand to make it
smooth all over
The instrument is coated with special alcoholic (food alcohol) mixture of eastern tree resin (used in Indian
alcohol industry as a thickener of wines, liqueurs, etc.), cherry resin and hedge of pine and spruce. We do not use any
modern varnishes in production.





