One night in 1998, I was singing, unaccompanied, "Henry Joy" at a session when a guy I'd never seen before started tipping at his bodhrán with a brush. He came over to me afterwards and said: "I hope that was alright?". "No, it wasn't alright" said I, " It was bloody great!". It ended up on the Mudcat Violet CD, via a Roscommon SIngers Circle recording.

However..... this was an exception. As has often been said, what matters is not how easy it is to play the bodhrán badly, insensitively ar just too loud - but how difficult it is to play well.

Regards