Yurko is a master of traditional Ukrainian kobza-kind musical instruments. He makes wheel fiddles (a hurdy-gurdy) starosvitska (smaller) banduras, Veresayev kobzas and krylovidni (“wing-shaped”) gusli – an ancient string musical instrument...
Music. instr. making
- Carving 13
- Cooperage 1
- Doll making 32
- Egg ornamenting 21
- Embroidery 26
- Glass blowing 4
- Jewelry making 4
- Leather dressing 2
- Music. instr. making 7
- Painting 16
- Paper cutting 6
- Pottery 17
- Root weaving 1
- Stone carving 3
- Straw weaving 12
- Tailoring 3
- Toy making 10
- Weaving 14
- Wickerwork 1
- Cherkasy region 11
- Chernihiv region 2
- Chernivtsi region 3
- Dnipropetrovsk region 9
- Donetsk region 3
- Ivano-Frankivsk region 8
- Kherson region 1
- Khmelnytskyi region 1
- Kirovohrad region 2
- Kyiv 45
- Kyiv region 11
- Luhansk region 5
- Lviv region 14
- Poltava region 7
- Rivne region 1
- Sumy region 1
- Ternopil region 9
- USA 1
- Vinnytsia region 8
- Volyn region 3
- Zaporizhzhia region 2
Yurko Avdeev
Volodymyr Vikhrenko
A Vinnytsya master – a pipe maker - has already been manufacturing these folk instruments for 18 years with his own hand. His instruments are highly rated and are used by well-known musicians but Volodymyr is a musician himself. He became interested in piping back during his student years.
Viktor Tereshchenko
A musician, a flute player and a carver - all in one person, from Kyiv region. He can create flutes from any kind of wood: willow, linden, alder, oak, birch. But most of all the master likes willow because according to his words instruments from such wood sound “as they should do”.
Vasyl Buyanovsky
Vasyl is a well-known Ukrainian musician playing kobza, bandura, violin and flute. He is a participant of many ethnic festivals in Ukraine and abroad. At the same time, Vasyl Buyanovsky is known as a talented master in creation of musical instruments.
Nestor (Vitaliy Nesterchuk)
He is the one who has managed to catch the melody of raindrops and is able to play it even on a dry day. From cow-parship stems (Borshchivnyk or Borshchovyk in Ukrainian) the artist creates ancient musical instruments, in particular – doshchovytsyas...
Fedir Kurkchi
A special place in this artist’s creative work belongs to Ukrainian folk musical instruments. Ceramic ocarinas, whistles and khykhychkas – all the instruments that have reached us from great antiquity and used to be widespread in many nations...
Serhiy Svyatny
Master of wood carving who is known first of all by his derkaches (derkach is a national noise instrument where the sound is obtained by means of rotation - a kind of a national rotating rattle)...