Multi-instrumentalist

(and autodidact)

The only thing I learned to play during my long years in the lower and middle music school and the academy of music has been violin, later viola and piano as the second instrument.

During my early and traditional music activity I learned almost exclusively as an autodidact how to play recorder, viol, shawm, cornetto, crumhorn, percussions, to sing and even to play Renaissance sackbut.

At the beginning of the eighties I added both Liras, da braccio and da gamba.

Regarding traditional folk instruments, I learned to play the sopile, šurle and mih (shawm, double pipe and bagpipe) of Istria, koboz (small folk lute of Romania) as well as mandolin, lijerica and gusle of Dalmatia.

Recently I made a new and interesting experience trying to play Bulgarian gadulka.

My interest in playing blues and rock music led me to learn how to improvise on the electric violin

(later electric viola and cello, too), to invent a hybrid bowed instrument called Turbofiddle and to play electric and acoustic guitars and bass.

Five years ago I realised my adolescent music dream and bought an SK2 Hammond Suzuki organ and a Railboard Chapman stick.