Boab said it. I've even been chided for NOT playing on some tunes which I feel the Hran has no right being a part of. Some tunes just do not lend themselves to a drum. If you do join in, it's just "hitting", no matter how well you can play. One evening, in a church basement, in front of five hundred or so, I turned my mic off for the last tune. Nobody, including the fiddler and both guitar players, knew the difference.