Completely agree, Jack. I react to him, and a few others like him, exactly as you do. It's very clever to be able to make the thing sound like water glugging out of a bottle, but the fatal sin of every bodhran specialist I've ever heard is to make themselves the point of the music. Which they are not. A bodhran owner is trying to add something to an Irish tune that is already there in the tune and which doesn't need adding to.