The Best Built Bodhráns in Kerry, Ireland 1977

[@animallover19581]

My father R.I.P. had a goat many years ago. A neighbour asked him what was he doing with that goat, well says father if she dont make milk, she'll make music. A wise man indeed.

[@eileenbailey8634]

, Great craftsman! Hand made , Rim sanded down to perfection! magical, mystical sound from this beautiful instrument, John B.Keane a great Irish ☘️ novelist & Playwright 🇮🇪 fantastic film 👍

[@dodgem6521]

Came from a large Irish background, this reminds me of any reason we had to have a family gathering. Was one of 7 we all played and danced traditional song's etc, then cousin's, uncles ,aunties joined, just took me back to that happy time many years ago . Thanks for posting

[@pmacc3557]

7? Small family🙂😆

[@dodgem6521]

@@pmacc3557 that's the one's who lived!!!!!!

[@pmacc3557]

@@dodgem6521 ah ok yes. Um # 11 of 13 😉

[@jamescoughlan8193]

@@pmacc3557 he wasn't drinking enough of the goats milk lol

[@nmatthew7469]

American Irish descent, 11 of 11. That little tune at the end cracked me up, laughed for ten mins here 😂

[@markl4143]

Beautiful on many levels...♥️🇮🇪🤙✊

[@marykategraham.205]

"""No such thing as THERAPY in them day's - just beat the Bodhrán."""--- BEAUTIFUL...Thank u CR's. V.V....🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶

[@prepperinireland2240]

That's wonderful! My trade in life afore I retired was animal hide tanning, I often skinned goats for bodhran players. :) Takes a lot of talent to get a good tone on the drum. Was lovely too watching the children play. :)

[@MrWhothefoxthat]

why would you buried the skin.

[@devinshepherd6966]

@@MrWhothefoxthat I knew a bodhran player that made his drum in 1930 in Ireland. He buried the skin in lye in order to remove the hair. My understanding is he dug a hole, put the skin in the hole, poured in lye, then covered it with dirt.

[@NickHewlettTHATCHIT]

Brilliant... Video... 😍🤺 You Know. Prepper in Ireland. 🤗🎵🤺

[@jarlathbyrne3146]

Brilliant video. Thanks for sharing it Keep well Jarlath

[@jamescoughlan8193]

Love these vids, I came for the bodhran but John B was a huge bonus a genius of story telling.

[@silverbullet8338]

Talented lovely old fella , traditional 👊

[@funker1916]

I love this country

[@maineroad7429]

Reminds me of St Wilfred’s CCE back in Manchester in the early 80’s music wise with a load of us blasting out tunes. .

[@MariaMartinez-kg6ns]

Thank you a lot it beautiful

[@maxpower1337]

Great video

[@charlesdickens6706]

Again we see Ireland on a rare damp misty overcast day . I suppose we all know about the Irish monks who travelled to Chesapeake Bay region of America ; there was mention here of indigenous folk of America having an identical device ,almost. Irish monks also made home in Iceland before the Vikings but we won't delve further, for now.

[@domdigger5451]

“There was an auld lad there - he was 101 years and he was so sexy they had to lock him up” haha class

[@johnnyfeen1347]

Pat Mustards granddad.

[@bid84]

Wasn’t expecting that quote to feature in this clip 😂

[@MrWhothefoxthat]

that's the goat's milk, give's you the horn. you wouldn't give a fek over the drum then.

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

Older people in developing countries have more sex appeal. Its the organic foods!!

[@strollingireland9860]

WooPhawooWOoo

[@pmacc3557]

"Hey!!" That's a good Kerry hello

[@davidoconnor4822]

Hey is for horses !

[@MrSullismom]

Enemies must have been scared shitless when they heard the Bodhrans coming over the hill!

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

Or they'd be tapping their foot.

[@georgealderson4424]

...especially with a herd of rampaging goats

[@yvonneparkin1618]

Thanks

[@angelakenny1215]

Our lovely Irish people

[@conchobharmacanri8765]

Sonny was my grandmother's grand uncle

[@general1869]

He was my dads Great Uncle to! my great Grandmother Madge was his sister

[@pauldaly2611]

He was my gran uncle my mother's uncle Joan keane

[@tomgreene1843]

Great to hear this sound ...not like so many wet rag tones we hear nowadays ....like a small Lambeg drum ...if one listens to the late P J Moloney playing the battering Ram with his uncle one gets the picture

[@obsidianzarok2361]

up out of that

[@pmacc3557]

What weight that fish kid?

[@davidhayes4814]

Aaah….. nostalgia is not what it used to be …….. neither it is….

[@admiralween]

Top notch, A-wan

[@jkris2361]

and at the end of the video he walks away ....with his rifle.....Ireland ....1977.....

[@ashleyplayz7830]

❤❤❤❤

[@michaelmurphy1000]

Is there a longer version to this video ?

[@rayannehorne3468]

REO Speedwagon tonight At Riveredge tonight. Aurora IL

[@calftobeefwexfordpaul1482]

When ireland was a great nation, peaceful, free, happier, friendlier sad its all gone really

[@dellhell8842]

Peaceful? Sure there was only 111 people murdered in the North that year. www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/troubles/deaths_by_year.html

[@calftobeefwexfordpaul1482]

@@dellhell8842 in the occupied North yes this clip is not in the militarised North run along irrelevant comment, murder,rape,muggings, assaults extremely rare in Ireland then compared to worldwide standards, friendliness, kindness and helpfulness were a normality then! Your irrelevant comment is pointless as you state an occupied territory with an actual border

[@dellhell8842]

@@calftobeefwexfordpaul1482 I'm not a smug partitionist who chose to ignore the appalling atrocities in the North in a 'I'm alright Jack' way that many so shamefully did. In respect of this jurisdiction, the decade in which 20th century crime rose most sharply was the 1970s. www.irishtimes.com/news/sharp-rise-in-1970s-followed-by-slow-decline-since-1980s-emerges-1.337274

[@calftobeefwexfordpaul1482]

@@dellhell8842 well unfortunately you'll have to as it was a militarised occupied segregated war zone weather you care to like that or not the video in question is co.kerry Republic of Ireland and was commented what your a bot you know you ridiculous comment holds no relevance to mine and is pointless! Run along you bot and In future to receive any plausibility to any of your comments try use your real name

[@calftobeefwexfordpaul1482]

@@dellhell8842 run along bot your not even irish and if u are in Ireland your one of them new visitors ha

[@lauraleogue414]

Is that John B Keane at the end

[@choctaw6838]

Would LOVE to be able to play one. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 👈

[@charlesdickens6706]

I know I don't have the talent but I love hearing a good player . Of course the real effect and sound isn't conveyed through this limited media we are watching .

[@irishizan]

Ah, Nothing else sounds the same. I wonder where all those children at the start are now ? What was that mans name ? What part of Co. Kerry ?

[@turloughkennedy6579]

Well I'm drinking more goats milk 😂😂

[@Will-cl9os]

Couldn't get any more Irish...and it pissin down rain outside aswell 😂

[@pilardp86]

What's the song the children are playing?

[@gerry6420]

Pint of goats milk please bar man.....

[@caseymcpoet]

Táimid scaipthe ar fud an Domhain anois. Agus iad siúd a chéasadh sinn, ba mhaith leo go mbeadh a gcuid leanaí cosúil linne. We are scattered all over the World now. And those who tortured us, want their children to be like us.

[@Team-fabulous]

I'm sure Sonny has long since shuffled off this moral coil...

[@nervesinapattern7261]

He’s still knocking about, he’s on the goats milk

[@Team-fabulous]

@@nervesinapattern7261 that'll put lead in your pencil 😮😮😂😂

[@nervesinapattern7261]

@@Team-fabulous 😂 😂

[@georgealderson4424]

@@Team-fabulous So that's what it is, is it?!

[@Team-fabulous]

@@georgealderson4424 what!!!?

[@noelmaher4633]

Jesu CR, shades of the Wickerman here.😁

[@Kloppsserialbottlers]

100th Street 4 Life

[@larsfrosznielsen3536]

[@uncleambient]

He shot the goat lol !!!! 🙈🤣

[@charlesdickens6706]

I'd have appreciated a more solemn n reverential expression .

[@thehairysnot8069]

Ah the good old days when Ireland had Irish people, you are watching history there folks

[@dellhell8842]

You are so right. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mp-0ZGSbhK5gjac

[@scoyle1750]

Now it's full of forgein shite that have left there own shitehouse countrys come to Ireland and are turning it into the shitehouse country they left in the first place

[@nervesinapattern7261]

Not enough Irish people are interested enough in preserving our language and traditions. It’s not foreigners fault we do it to ourselves. Sonny would likely feel alienated if he was alive today..

[@scoyle1750]

@Martin Cregan how do you know you bollicks go away you fool

[@scoyle1750]

@Martin Cregan your right I am not a addition as a native Irish man I was already here probably unlike yourself I have ancestors stretching back hundreds of years in Ireland before me now go away English fool

[@craignightingale8022]

Bet the goat skin ponged nicely after 9 days in the ground! Wonder if there's a market these days for vegan bodhrans?

[@richardraja-aho7596]

There are vegan bodhrans available, but I haven't found one yet that really reproduces the feel or sound of a natural skin. I have a synthetic skin on one of my drums, mainly for use on outdoor performances, as heat and humidity have less effect on them.

[@nervesinapattern7261]

@@richardraja-aho7596 Do you know why they keep the skins underground for a period?

[@davidhawkins9206]

@@nervesinapattern7261 to rot it a bit and loosen the hair, keep something from running off with it and stinking the place out

[@craignightingale8022]

@@richardraja-aho7596 cheers for that. Yeah, it only became obvious to.me now that animal skins sound better but are highly sensitive to atmospherics. Read something similar about djembes.