The mouthpiece is sharpened into a cone-like edge and the instrument produces a sound similar to that of the flute.
The floyarka was often played at funerals in the Carpathian Mountains.
Shepherds were also able to accompany themselves with glutteral humming which produced an ostinato tone or drone.
The floyarka is often called a frilka or sometimes zubivka in central Ukraine.
The name is rather a contaminant from a Greek-Romanian filiation (more spread is the Slavic sopilka).