Definition of "bodhran" [bodhran]

• A hand-held goatskin drum used in traditional Irish music and often played with a stick. (noun)

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• "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.”"
• "And with a bodhran, which is a hard word to spell, so it is!"
• "A modern day rockabilly queen, May breathes new life into an old genre, and her use of a bodhran is a quirky touch that fits her highly percussive sound to a T. 's 24-year-old bright young thing Victoria Hesketh AKA Little Boots is being tipped by the"