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Thread #129449   Message #2906860
Posted By: GUEST,Mr Red
14-May-10 - 11:38 AM
Thread Name: picture this: two bodhrans
Subject: RE: picture this: two bodhrans
Two Bodhrans in one session sounds like the beginning of the joke - "is two too many". But I have a beteter joke when all the drum/drummer jokes have been tried - other musos may not like it, but it is funny.

Yes one does look like it is being played with a tipper, but the other looks less typical Bodhran action, and is that a snare I see before my very eyes?

However I doubt they would call them "Bodhran" - I was told the earliest reference to the word (Paul Ryan will no doubt deny it) is in a Dictionary of Celtic Words (c1909). I put this to a scholarly gent who is considering a PhD in Morris - (history of, his knees are not up to the practical exam). He said "Yes but it has no descriptive meaning attached to it" so no-one knows what was meant by it. He also referred to the (earlier??) Sussex Riddle Drum when I mentioned Peter Kennedy & the Dorset Riddle Drum - I have seen the entry in his book.