Drumming in my head - make it stop

Subject: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Stirling
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 03:42 PM

The drum is the Great Spirit's favorite instrument; that is why we are all given a heartbeat." - Navajo Elder

What is the correct Irish spelling for "boran" - ie drum?

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Bert
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 03:48 PM

Forget the spelling, what's the bloody pronunciation?

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Margo
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 03:53 PM

Bodhran is pronounced boran with the accent on the second syllable. Someone correct me if I'm wrong!

Margarita

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From:
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 03:54 PM

Must be "Bodhran" ? But good question?

Maybe utilizing an onomatopaiea - "boom" is the correct pronunciation?

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: danl
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 03:58 PM

the only thing i really know about this fiendishly difficult to play instrument (apart from how to say its name) is that if you ever leave it out over night by mistake when youre camping then you can just about save it before your big brother finds out what youve done to his instrument by gently drying it over a camping gas heater and then letting your younger sister take it back to him .....

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Stirling
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 04:07 PM

If you ever find out only one thing about an instrument - that would probably be the most important.

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: MMario
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 04:13 PM

*snicker* at faire last season the bodhran player got listed (due to a typo) as a "Boron" player.

And I don't mind the drumming in my head, but the voices have got to stop!

MMario

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Stirling
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 04:16 PM

I have the same trouble with voices and every time I see a helicopter they yell "INCOMING" and I find myself face down in the dirt.....

Anyone know how to fix this?

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: DougR
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 04:19 PM

I was told one time that the best way to rid yourself of a song that keeps playing in your head and just won't go away is to think of the song, "Onward Christian Soldiers."

Of course you then have to figure out a way to get rid of "Onward Christian Soldiers." Maybe with a drum ...?

DougR

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: annamill
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 04:26 PM

OH NOOOO!! Now look what you've gone and done. I'll never get that song out of my head...Onward Christian soldier, marching to the fore, with the cross of ....

Help...

annap hummm hummm humm hum-hum hum..

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: DougR
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 04:35 PM

Annap:

I warned you!

DougR

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Fadac
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 04:41 PM

Stirling, I don't know what to say. As I walk along, I still look for good places to go in case of rocket attack.

Funny story: When I got back from my first tour in Viet Nam, less than 20hours from in country to in my parents trailer on the Olympic Pennsula. That very night, the Canadians decided that was a good time to have a night fire exersise. As they shot accorss the Streights of Jan De Fucia, I heard the "hit" before the "fire" So It sounded just like incomming. As it was about 02:30 and I was still wired from the long airplane ride, I wasn't really awake. Well, I must have made one hell of a racket, I woke up, in the ditch, in front of the trailer, with the broom in my hand, a pot on my head, mud up to my butt, and my father with a flashlight saying "all clear". That was in 1969, and I still jump when a car backfires.

Drums are ok. I'll take drums anytime, B-122's now, I don't want to hear them again. No Sir.

-Fadac

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Emmie
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 06:10 PM

When I went to Belfasr last year everyone pronounced it as bow-ran and they said that it is pronounced the other way in the south. Emmie

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: alison
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 02:59 AM

Hi,

you have 3 choices here.... as a rough guide....

in Northern Ireland it is bow-ron (as in bow and arrow) in the South of Ireland it is bough -ron (as in bough of a tree, or take a bow)

and in Scotland it is bo-rrrran.

Take your pick.. but the main point is NEVER EVER pronounce the "d".

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: danl
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 06:44 AM

ive always heard of it as the scottish version. i think it sounds better pronouced that way actually. kind of roles off the tounge well.

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Bev Lawton
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 08:59 AM

They normally pronounce it as "That F---ing Drum" when I pick mine up!!! Bev Lawton

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Stirling
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 10:27 AM

Ok, thanks. I see there are multiple types. Those of you who play this instrument...I see there are tunable and non tunable types...in 3 words or less whats the difference in terms of playing ie how difficult is it to play a tunable one?

"Tunable" - is that the correct spelling?

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: emily rain
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 10:31 AM

i had a bodhran playing friend who eventually earned the nickname "THUD"

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Bert
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 10:53 AM

Emily,

He belongs in the onomatopoeia thread

Bert.

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Stirling
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 11:30 AM

I had a tequila drinking friend who also earned the nickname thud. For entirely different reasons, I suspect.

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Fadac
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 11:44 AM

Drinking, that will make music.

Me, I'm a three beer man. Drink one, spill one, and give one away, I'm drunk and ready to go home.

-Fadac

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: alison
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 09:50 PM

Stirling...

Can't do it in less that 3 words....... you adjust the skin (if it is too loose or tight) on a non tunable by adding water or heat to the skin... if you add water you won't really notice a difference for a few minutes, and you may have added too much.....

with a tuneable you adjust the screws and the result is instant....

that is the major difference... plus you can tune it if you want so that your drum is in the right key....

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 03:12 AM

Ah, so many drummers . . . so little time!

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Banjer
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 06:13 AM

It appears that a bodhran is nothing more than a banjo without a neck. Stirling, I don't think tunable and either banjo or bodhran belong in the same paragraph, unless the reference is all the other players tuning up or down to whatever the 'banjdhran' player is set up for. (that would certainly take less time):-)

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Bert
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 08:34 AM

You're right Banjer, The next evolutionary step towards perfecting the instrument would be to remove the skin.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Stirling
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 10:54 AM

Most every rock drummer I ever knew was a teetering perilously on the edge of reality...the rest had plunged over the edge and seemed to be quite happy in free fall.

Can this also be said for bodhran players?

Would that be bodhraners, bodhranites or bodhranophiles?

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: annamill
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 11:03 AM

Fadac, very scarry story. I know it was meant to be a funny one, but....

I've decided we need a bodhran at our gathering. Are any bodhran players coming July 17th? ;-) **Grin**

annap

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Stirling
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 11:06 AM

Ok, July 17 it is. I'll be there with my brand, spanking new bodhran, my mink underwear and an attitude.

We need a location though.

I suggest Baffin Island...its more fun on June 21 for the Solstice but we got a late start this year....NEXT YEAR THOUGH...

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Fadac
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 11:19 AM

Stirling, Uh, that underwear, is it fuzzy side in...or out?

If you wear it out...You could just bang a couple of rocks toghether.

-Fadac

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: Stirling
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 11:34 AM

Fadac...

If it wears out...a couple of rocks WILL be banging together....

Subject: RE: Drumming in my head - make it stop
From: annamill
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 12:16 PM

Ummm... maybe we don't need a bodhran at our gathering...

NOI ;-)

annap