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Thread #129449 Message #2906780
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
14-May-10 - 10:22 AM
Thread Name: picture this: two bodhrans
Subject: RE: picture this: two bodhrans
Geoff, I fear you are right. Putting the shawms on a different cloud might not be enough. They might need to be on a different celestial plane altogether.
As for all those names for drums, if you hold it like a bodhran and hit it like a bodhran, it's a bodhran, or maybe a tambour or a tambourine or a tabor or a taboret or a ...
We have a photograph of a statue that's in the Vatican Museum. It shows a woman in a tunic, seated and holding a round drum upright on her knee. She is striking it with a wand. Looks like another bodhran to me. Trouble is, I forget whether the statue was 400 years old or 2000.