Making a bodhran

**haukehaien** · 17th October 07, 12:18 PM

How to make a bodhran

**McFarkus** · 17th October 07, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by haukehaien

How to make a bodhran

Very cool. I'm going to send the link to my nephew Seamus (a sometime member here). He plays the bodhran.

**McJore** · 17th October 07, 02:08 PM

the el cheapo bodhran
http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/bo...ntonmake.shtml

**Nick the DSM** · 17th October 07, 05:01 PM

pots and pans?! lol

**berserkbishop** · 17th October 07, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by McJore

the el cheapo bodhran
http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/bo...ntonmake.shtml

Thanks! That looks to be exactly what I need. . . now just figuring out where to pick up a fresh goat hide. . .

**McJore** · 17th October 07, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by berserkbishop

Thanks! That looks to be exactly what I need. . . now just figuring out where to pick up a fresh goat hide. . .

youre welcome, were i used to live i could a goat hide for somthing like 30 usd from the local tanner, and were i live now i guess there much cheaper, good luck post some pictures when youre done

**JimB** · 18th October 07, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by berserkbishop

Thanks! That looks to be exactly what I need. . . now just figuring out where to pick up a fresh goat hide. . .

Try this for your goat hide...
http://www.foxvalleyleather.com/new_menu/index.html
If that doesn't work out, I know a guy who has one, and it IS a new moon .....

**auld argonian** · 18th October 07, 12:08 PM

As to a fresh hide, in these parts we have several butchers that specialize in both lamb and goat for the Greek, Middle Eastern and Jamaican connessieurs.

That's the advantage of living in a big melting-pot city!

Should be someone around you doing the same thing and who can accommodate you.

And I hate to bring this up but I have seen a company that makes bodhrans using greyhound (yep...the dogs, not the buses) skin. Obviously, not an option but kind of a yicky sidebar.

Best

AA

**Galician** · 18th October 07, 12:33 PM

This might not be applicable for most cases of locally-produced hides, but here in NYC we have had a very serious experience recently regarding artists using animal hides.

A musician originally from Africa imported a bunch of hides from there for use with his instruments. Apparently they contained the anthrax virus. He got seriously sick and his entire apartment building had to be disinfected.

After the death of several people in the Northeast, as a result of the anthrax-bearing letter attack following 9/11, we tend to take this virus far more seriously.