Well Bodran players tend to be a strange lot. They baby their drums. Some like to moisen the skin with beer, sometimes even a particular kind of beer. Others have special creams or losions they use to moisen the bodran skin. Still others insist, "No, no, no, no, only distilled water must ever be used to wet the skin. Anything else will contaminate it."

And then there was the Irish duo I saw a while back who explained that they had started storing stuff like strings and picks in the bodran and it was too much trouble to unpack it all before every show, and repack it after every show. So one of them grabs a cardboard box and starts druming on it. It sounded much like the bodrans that get treated with kid gloves.

True story I swear.