Ruky na dudy

RukyNaDudy band plays an archaic form of traditional music of the of the so called Hukvaldské Beskydy in the northwestern Carpathians. Besides the importance of singing, the typical musical instruments are also shared with other parts of the Carpathian area: the flutes with different number of finger holes, pastoral horns, bagpipes (gajdy), bowed instruments and dulcimers. The flutes are an archaic basis of this traditional music. They are traditionally associated with mountain pasturage of sheep (salašnictvi) expanded in the Carpathians through ethnically mixed people called Valachians (Valaši). The bagpipe was originally the main instrument for dance parties. Although it was mostly replaced by newer form of traditional music, there has been an unusual revival in recent time in conjunction with other original instruments. In the locality from which the repertoire of RukyNaDudy comes from the so called dulcimer band (cimbálová muzika) is nowadays the most typical ensemble for the presentation of traditional music. Despite being of Hungarian origin, the big dulcimer domesticated here (like everywhere else in the very eastern part of the Czech Republic) together with a new style of playing after the World
War II. The RukynaDudy band is just by contrast aimed at completely or almost disappeared musical instruments, ensembles and musical styles of traditional music and is active in the process of their revival and the keeping of regional specifics.