Bodhran

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A hand-held goatskin drum used in traditional Irish music and often played with a stick.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A type of frame drum used in Celtic music, which was, by tradition, struck with an animal bone to produce its sound, now more usually this is wood.
  • Word Usage
    "The scholar Eric Lott has noted, “The very instrumentation of minstrel bands followed this pattern: the banjo and jawbone were black, while the fiddle, bones, and tambourine derived perhaps from an instrument called the bodhran were Irish.”"
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