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Report about our visit to Pirenostrum 2008

Posted on August 16th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: foto, music instruments, exhibitions.

The old small charming village Boltana placed high in Pyrenees gave kind welcome for music instruments builders, musicians and guests from different countries. They all came because of Pirenostrum, the festival of music instruments.

Here everybody knows each other and the old stoned houses called “casa” always have their own names. For our exhibition stand we got place in the beautiful casa Coronel.

Each day was full of program and a lot of visitors came to see and to try bagpipes from differents parts of Spain, hurdy gurdy, flutes, drums etc. etc. etc… The old casa Coronel was full with people too. They were interested in our instruments: jews harps, futuristic fujaras, futujaras

and bagpipes as also nice small flutes from Mallorca called Xirimjeta made by our friend Junajo: a talented painter, ceramist, biologist and bagpipe builder in one! With him we were happy to travel and have the stand together.

during smal breaks Julia was decorating the bagpipe made by Junajo and Nadishana was playing Futuristic Fujara, so no time was lost there:)!

During the festival there were two good surprises, which were very special for us. The first was a meeting with an innovator in bagpipe building – Francisco Calvo Regueiro, very nice person. His gaitas can be easily played for about half an hour without hard blowing into the bag!!! Sounds like a dream for a bagpipe player, wright?! And Francisco was very interested in futurustuc fujara. Of course in this situation the exchange of instruments was the best solution for both: Nadishana and Francisco:)

The second thing was a meeting with a boy from the village who had seen the concert of Vladiswar Nadishana at the Conspiremus-festival two years ago and was infected by the wish to learn to play jews harp. We remembered him well, because he came after the concert to the stage to see the jews harp from a close distance, and Nadishana was showing him how it works. Now he came especially to get his first jews harp from Nadishana and was very happy after he hold his own one in the hand. We hope to see him next time playing!

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Second edition of pyro-boxes for jews harps is out now

Posted on August 15th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: Kuzhebar, pyrography, design, Ancient Kuzhebar, music instruments.

the boxes depic mainly the figure of one of ancient kuzhebarian dethless creatures named Kuzheshu, what means first fish or fish-mother. This edition is now available

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New hat collection from Kuzhebar Design

Posted on June 14th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: Kuzhebar, design, foto, fashion.

New ethno hat collection from Kuzhebar Design.
Material: cotton and polyacril (symbols)
Price: 29,- Euro

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Design for Futuristic Fujara

Posted on June 13th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: design, foto, music instruments.

The idea of Paul Marshall about making slovak traditional overtone flute called FUJARA out of PVC is not lost. More than that Nadishana encouraged Max Brumberg, experienced fujara maker to build one, which became the name Futuristic Fujara. They both put new ideas to the construction, so this new beautiful sounding music instrument which actually combines 3 instruments in one has influenced Kuzhebar Design to develop special designs for it.

The results are here to see. Two Futuristic Fujara designs in brown: opaque and glossy, one in balck and one in bronze.

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To buy Futuristic Fujara and to watch instructinal and demonstration video please go here.

We developed also suitable fujara-bags made from esthetic leather imitate called "nappa", which are very light and easy to clean.

New designs of Futiristic Fujara are coming soon!!!

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Shamanic tunable Frame Drum with henna design

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: henna painting, Kuzhebar, pyrography, design, Ancient Kuzhebar, music instruments, video.

Shamanic tunable Frame Drum made from deer skin with henna design in traditional kuzhebarian style.

This drum is made by David Roman Drums and has a revolutionary tuning system, you can tune it with bicycle pump in seconds to any pitch! See video for details.

Henna design made by Kuzhebar Design Studio

This demonstration video made with help of David Kuckhermann

the price is 249 EUR

please ask by email for shipping price.

Other shamanic drums with customer henna design are also availiable!

you can optionally order the beater with pyrodesign:

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Frontal world plane or kuzhebarian mandala

Posted on April 4th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: Kuzhebar, pyrography, foto, Ancient Kuzhebar.

One of the forms of the world picture engraving in Ancient Kuzhebar.
The solar symbol in the centre depicts the arch-father of Ancient Kuzhebar - Yagdyn.

The inner circle build Dethless Creatures, who bring into the world different kinds of beings, which symbols you can see on the external circle. On the frontal world plane it is easily to recognise axles, which present the vision of an always growing and renewing world.

Julia Surba. Pyrography on wood, diameter 34сm

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Magic Kui-Gorozh Eggs

Posted on March 17th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: pyrography, design, Ancient Kuzhebar.

All over the world exist old legends, tales and rituals connected with eggs. They are known like symbols of life and rebith. Also in a mokshan culture exist an interesting tale connected with an egg.

Mokshan people say that deep in the forest grows an ancient oak with a magic egg inside, the egg of Kui - Gorozh. Kui - Gorozh is a magic creature, a mixture of a snake and an owl, who can realise all wishes of his owner.
To become an owner of Kui - Gorozh one should find the Kui - Gorozh’ egg and brood it up.

Inspired by this tale I created some Kui - Gorozh’ eggs (of course with the help of Kuzhebarian Gods!!!).
Who know’s may be someone of you will be lucky to brood it out?
Do you want to try?

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Good news! Our art prints and postcards are available!

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: pyrography, design, foto, Ancient Kuzhebar.

Now you can have your favorite atrtwork of Julia Surba on a postcard or like an art print. Postcards are two side printed and art prints are made on tibetan hand made kahari-paper* and on cyperus papyrus**

kahari paper* is traditionally made from plant Canabis sativa, which grows high in Himalayan mountains. The paper is hand made and has a beautiful texture. Each piece of paper is unique, and the artprints look like hand painted on it.

Cyperus papyrus** also called Papyrus Sedge or Paper Reed is traditionally made from plant Cyperaceae, which grows in the wetter parts of Africa. Papyrus has a good recognisable texture and looks very impressive. Because of that the artprints looks lifelike on it.

All these stuff and much more is available in our new online shop, called KUZHEBAR STORE. You are welcome!

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Pyrography design on bulgarian flute

Posted on February 7th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: pyrography, design, foto, music instruments.

Here you can see the traditional bulgarian flute called dvujanka or dvojanka with pyrography design on it, which is newly made by Julia Surba. The flute is made from wood and has two chanters. One chanter is for playing and another one is a dron.