:-) I told them triangle is better for me :-)! Just joke! In fact I absolutly admire good bodhran players and hear some of them to create magical things :-) Once I hear one who created so great pallete of sounds that I never believed that it's possible to create on any kind of drum. It was real music.
Yesterday was scream of help, may be I had one of that moment when I would rather play it with knife :-) I decieded not to dissapoint my friends and fight and learn and I am stabborn in that moment even I know that I will never be good bodhran player ... may be If I will practise a lot I should add something to band and not ruin our music. I know less is sometimes more. Yesterday I told them not to expect anything in few months.:-D I will surely priper brushes. It should be more quiet and when I practise even with towel inside it's still too loud. :-)
Trouble is with family reaction. When they sow me with harp as full beginner two years ago, it was o.k. as you can create lovely sound even from first minute, but bodhran is really not easy and when they sow me "bang!" they were dieing from laughing. I need to practise secretly when everybody is away.