"Trouble is that 99% of people who 'play?' bodhrans are utterly useless and someone should tell them so!" ... so they're modhrans? It looks like we're coming to a near-consensus, but maybe we should categorize the top contestants: Strings: bowed psaltery, hurdy-gurdy Free Reeds: harmonica, melodeon, bagpipe Brass: No consensus, but krummhorn mentioned Percussion: shakey egg, spoons, bones Vocal: June Tabor, Bob Dylan (not mentioned but implied by several) and, lastly, Players: All the ham-handed, poorly-trained, tone-deaf twits who have somehow managed to learn to hold any of the above instruments and inflict their efforts on poor, unsuspecting passers-by like us. Does this sum it up for now? Bob
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