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- Subject: Re: Rejoice, and Velvet reels
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.125755.460@news.wesleyan.edu>
- From: DPERRY@eagle.wesleyan.edu (DAVID M. PERRY)
- Date: 23 Nov 92 12:57:54 EDT
- References: <1992Nov18.171704.14309@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu><1992Nov22.130657.1091@cs.mcgill.ca> <OLSON.92Nov22223436@husc8.harvard.edu>
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- In <OLSON.92Nov22223436@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu writes:
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- > "A bodhran, anyway, is a hand-held drum about the same proportions as a
- > tambourine, only somewhat larger. You hold it by the two crossed struts
- > in back, and hit it with a short two-ended beater. A really nifty bass
- > sound, and you can do some really nifty rhythms with it. Most Irish/Celtic
- > bands use one at least occasionally."
- >
- "By the way," inserts Jack Crow, "it was first developed (according to a folk
- music teacher of mine) by the drummer for "the Chieftans" about thirty years
- ago. The drum was around as a message drum or for ceremony type stuff, but the
- Chieftan drummer developed the style. They have tenor bodhrans as well."
-
- One of Jack's Crows
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- "I'll be back in a minute."---Godot
-