Hey its a good job there are no tedious,middle class,beardy,finger in ear,boring ,droning,scholarly folkies any where on the planet aint it?
Its also good that all the lovers of traditional music out there (especialy the irish type of music). Would realise that the frame drum in question is probably the first and most traditional of all the instruments used to play this variety of music.
Of course you never get bored of hearing guitarists tuning up (oh a new tuning,no its dadgad again!)
or violininsts who never quite manage to get in tune at all.
Or those bloody awful squeeze boxes and harmionicas and raucus banjo's.
Or those brilliant sessions in English rural pubs were the only instrument played at anything above the level of dirge is Bodrhan.
Its a shame that most of the spouters about traditional music of any kind are usualy not the ones capable of inventing or progressing the form themselves but in general people who sit,snigger and critisize.
Bodrhan is no more of a pain in a session than any other instrument that is capable of being played badly or inapropriatly.
Now is there any one who needs a hand doing up the toggles on their duffle coats before they venture out into the cold?