There really isn't much to say regarding these drums. I don't recommend one unless you are DESPERATE! They'll do in a pinch, but not by much. As far as I know they are mass produced in some factory in Pakistan. Cheap frames, cheaper skins, and the lousiest, heaviest tuning system ever conceived by man. The website that imports them has this to say: "Goatskin exterior tunable, rosewood, includes a slim tipper, a 2-knob tipper, and a tuning wrench. Made in Pakistan".


This was the first tunable bodhran I ever owned. After a couple of months of fighting with the thing, I decided the skin was no good, but the frame might be salvagable. I passed it onto a friend of mine who skins drums to try and add a good quality fixed head to the frame. After attaching the new head he gave me back onto the drum, it sounded better that it had, but it was still pretty bad. Two days later the skin warmed up in my home and TORE THE FRAME APART! That's right, the skin shrinking up a bit broke the wood of the frame!! 'nuff said.

The double cross pieces in these drums are permanent, and essential to them holding their shape.

They run between $50 and $80 depending on where you find them, which is just about any instrument shop that wants to seem more worldly.

Mid-East Manufacturing






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