The Bodhrán is a frame drum with a diameter of 10 to 26 inches that is utilised in Irish music. The goatskin is attached to the side where in case synthetic heads or other animal skins are also sometimes used. To regulate the pitch and timbre, one hand is put against the interior of the drum head on the other side, which is open-ended. On such contemporary musical instruments, one or two crossbars that can be removed occasionally may be found inside the frame. Some professionally made contemporary Bodhráns use mechanical tuning mechanisms akin to those seen on drums in drum sets. The Bodhrán skins are typically tightened or loosened with a hex key depending on the weather. Bodhrán, the drum with a musical heritage that may predate Christianity and is thought to be indigenous to southwest Ireland, was asserted to be the native drum of the ancient Celts by Seán Ó Riada, an Irish composer and arranger of Irish traditional music. He speculated that it may have been used initially for winnowing or wool dying. The tambourine, which can be heard on some Irish music recordings from the 1920s and seen in a pre-Famine artwork, is also thought to have given rise to the Bodhrán in the middle of the nineteenth century. However, the Tambourine of the Poor Man, which was built out of agricultural equipment and lacked cymbals, was often used by mummers, or wren-boys, in isolated areas of the south-west. A sizable Halloween house party is shown in a big oil painting on canvas from 1833 by Daniel Maclise (1806–1870), in which a Bodhrán in the shape of a tambourine is prominently displayed. It is in a band of musicians that includes a violin, a fife, and union pipes. The back-hand of the player is used to strike the bodhrán, as is still occasionally done. Handcrafted frame drums were produced in the early twentieth century utilising willow branches for the frames, leather for the drumheads, and pennies for the jingles. Photos and films from the 1940s and 1950s depict Bodhráns with cipín-played jingles
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