Actually, Azizi, even then back in Minnesota I couldn't take anything like a steady diet of polka myself. I never thought of polka as folk then; it was never promoted under that name; but in retrospect I guess it is "folk" to "folks" from a number of countries. Hope you know I wasn't meanin' at all to put you down; I was just stuck once again by what should be obvious; people in one country can "come from" very different "places" I'm not sure how old I was when I first heard a bodhran, but I'll bet I was far older than you before I knew the name for it. I was pushing 20 the first time I learned to recognize a classical composition by name (Well, I did know the real name for the Lone Ranger theme); Forty-some years later I sometimes think I'm not so naive anymore, but other times I'm not sure.