I normally don't mind bodhrán players in a session, and in the sessions I play in they are fairly quiet and don't accompany all the tunes. But yesterday afternoon on my way home I stopped off to listen to a session in a place I hadn't been in before, consisting of a very good piper, about 3 fiddles, two whistle players, a couple of singers with guitars... and an oversize bodhrán. The problem was that the bodhrán player was always just a tad behind the main instruments, especially on reels. Very off-putting to me and my musical buddies, because it was so loud, but then most in the (packed) pub probably wouldn't have noticed it.