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18" World Beat Bodhran, External Tuning (WB239)
List Price: $184.99
Sale Price: NA
Includes: Tipper (wood beater); black nylon carrying case; & tuning Key
Description: Externally tuned bodhran, goat skin head & removable crossbar
Head: Goatskin
Head Diameter: 18"
WB's Tunable Irish Bodhran
LP's World Beat 18" Tunable Bodhran comes with a tuning wrench & easy-to-tune lugs. The tuning lugs allow you to easily explore a large variety of tonal ranges. This drum also comes with a tipper (two headed wood beater) & durable, black nylon carrying case. The drum also has a removable cross bar.
The frame of the drum is made of rosewood & the head is goat skin.
Basic Playing Technique
The circular f
rame of the World Beat Bodhran is supported by a cross section, which the player can hold while playing. Most commonly, the bodhran is played by either holding the cross section with one hand & beating the head with the other hand; or tucking the drum between the one arm and the chest so the free hand can beat & play the head.The head can be struck with the bare hand, fingers or tipper ( a double-headed stick; also known as a beater or cipin, which is the Gaelic word for kindling).
The hand using the tipper can strike in a variety of ways, such as rotating the forearms so that the tipper tips side-to-side or bouncing/striking the tipper upon the head. Click to learn more about playing the bodhran.
Bodhran's Basic Background
The Bodhran (pronounced "bow-rawn") are frame drums of Celtic origin.
The bodhran (pronounced "bow-rawn") is a very resonant & reletively simple
Irish frame drum, which was originally used as a husk
sifter: that is, as a pan-like device to to shake the husks off grains.
Gaelic peasants first converted the sifter to a musical instrument by replacing
its wire mesh head with stretched goat skin.
The bodhran is a special drum which is at the heart of contemporary playing of traditional Irish music. Yet it's only been outside of Southwest Ireland since 1960's.
