hard to get barks and animal imitations out of a bouzouki, I would think! or a bass drone for that matter!

not to start another thread debate on what is traditional, I'm just stating my preferences, and questioning katlaughing's thoughts on Irish ancient instruments having anything to do with didgeridoos.

I guess I should have said I prefer traditional music, and I guess for Irish I'd be taken to task for just about any instrumentation except the harp, and a particular kind of harp at that, the bodhran, and then I'd say pipes and fiddle would about do it. Squeeze box for dance tunes since late 19th c., but not my favorite use of the instrument. I enjoy 'Irish' music of a later vintage that uses guitar, and octave mandolin/bouzouki, but I guess I wouldn't call it traditional instrumentation. I would concede that one can play a traditional tune on anything, electrified or otherwise.

But I still say I do not like the didgeridoo outside of Australian aboriginal music, nor the dumbek outside of the middle east, nor Greek bouzouki outside of Greece. Irish bouzouki is another story, as I've said. Nor an electric or acoustic bass line under any Irish song, sets my teeth on edge, unnecessary and intrusive. Give me sean nos or give me death, (one and the same to some people I'm sure!)