Irish Bodhran Raven 12” Set inc DVD

Irish Bodhran Irish Bodhran – beautifully and expertly crafted 12″ traditional celtic bodhran, made in Ireland by Paraic McNeela. Comes with a beater and a DVD. We sell other designs here . Paraic McNeela is an master bodhran maker based in Dublin, Ireland. When he started making bodhrans, Padraic joined a fraternity known as The Bodhran Makers. The Bodhran Makers shared their knowledge and experiences together in the intricacies of Bodhran Making. Since then however, Paraic is one of the only members of that fraternity still producing bodhrans. “I am very proud of the sound I get from my bodhrans.A bodhran is a bass drum and should sound like a bass drum. Some bodhrans are very high pitched and can sound like a snare drum (without the snare!). Bodhran making is a fun job with a steady market and meeting new and interesting customers is an added bonus. There are always challenges; new beaters to design and make; a new design of bodhran and repairs to old bodhrans to be done. When I repair and re-stretch old skins onto older bodhrans it is such a pleasure to see the old drum come back to life. I have even repaired one of the Riverdance drums.” Irish Bodhran Background Thebodhranis a frame drumused in Irish music ranging from 25to 65cm (1026in) in diameter, with most drums measuring 3545cm (1418in). The sides of the drum are920cm (3+128in) deep. Agoatskinhead is tacked to one side (synthetic heads or other animal skins are sometimes used). The other side is open-ended for one hand to be placed against the inside of the drum head to control thepitchandtimbre. One or two crossbars, sometimes removable, may be inside the frame, but this is increasingly rare on modern instruments. Some professional modern bodhrans integrate mechanical tuning systems similar to those used on drums found indrum kits. It is usually with ahex keythat the bodhran skins are tightened or loosened depending on the atmospheric conditions. History Sean O Riadadeclared the bodhran to be the native drum of the ancientCelts(as did bodhran maker Paraic McNeela), suggesting that it was possibly used originally forwinnowingor wool dying, with a musical history thatpredated Christianity, native tosouthwest Ireland. However, according to musician Ronan Nolan, former editor ofIrish Musicmagazine, the bodhran evolved in the mid-19th century from thetambourine, which can be heard on some Irish music recordings dating back to the 1920s. A large oil painting on canvas from 1833 byDaniel Maclise(18061870) depicts aHalloweenhouse party where a tambourine-style bodhran features clearly.[5]It is in a group of musicians withunion pipes, afiddle, and afife. The bodhran is struck with the back of the player’s hand, as is sometimes still done, rather than with acipin, also known in English as a “tipper. In remote parts of the south-west, the “poor man’s tambourine” made from farm implements and without the jingles was in popular use amongmummers, orwren boys. In the early 20th century, home-made frame drums were constructed using willow branches as frames, leather as drumheads, and pennies as jingles. Photographs from the 1940s and videos from the 1950s show bodhrans with jingles played with ‘cipin.[6] The Irish wordbodhran(pluralbodhrain), indicating a drum, is first mentioned in a translated English document in the 17th century.[5]It appears in Jacob Pool’s list of words from the Baronies of Forth and Bargy in county Wexford (collected in the late 18th century), meaning “A drum, tambourine…also a sieve used in winnowing corn”.[7] Third-generation bodhran maker Caramel Tobin suggests that the namebodhranmeans “skin tray”. He also suggests a link with theIrishwordbodhar, meaning, among other things, a drum or a dull sound (it also meansdeaf).[5][8]A relatively new introduction toIrish music, the bodhran without jingles has largely supplanted its predecessor. Links You can read more of this article here Learn to play the Irish Bodhran