Azizi, while I own, and like, my Malachy Kearns' bodhran, his site is just a bit off. First, there is no reliable record of the bodhran in Irish (or any other kind) of music much before the 1930s, if that early. Second, his drums are at best B or B+ in quality...there are much better, and less expensive, ones out there.

Keep trying to find International and other kinds of folk stuff in Pgh. Its out there, but that city, like many others in the Rust Belt, is more noted for its individual (and inbred) ethnic communities than for any kind of transfusion between them. My wife is from Pgh. and we've lived in both Erie and Cleveland, so we've had that experience.