Hello,
I recently started playing a little bodhran (Irish frame drum), and was wondering if anyone has used their PD-120 as a MIDI bodhran? Basically that means standing it on its side on your leg and hitting it with a "tipper", which is the two-sided stick you use for the bodhran.
From my short experiments it seems to work reasonably well, but I'm wondering if I'm doing any damage to the PD-120. The only things I could think might hurt are that it is on it's side, and that the tipper hits sort of a "glancing blow", so there's wood sliding across the drum head more than usual.
Any ideas, recommendations, warnings?
Thanks,
John
I recently started playing a little bodhran (Irish frame drum), and was wondering if anyone has used their PD-120 as a MIDI bodhran? Basically that means standing it on its side on your leg and hitting it with a "tipper", which is the two-sided stick you use for the bodhran.
From my short experiments it seems to work reasonably well, but I'm wondering if I'm doing any damage to the PD-120. The only things I could think might hurt are that it is on it's side, and that the tipper hits sort of a "glancing blow", so there's wood sliding across the drum head more than usual.
Any ideas, recommendations, warnings?
Thanks,
John
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