Bodhrán and Frame Drums
Frame drums are narrow wooden shells with skin heads tacked or glued to them.
The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum unique in that it has
one or two dowels for structural reinforcement running across the diameter of the shell. Frame drums are traditionally played with the cupped palm or heel of the hand, but the bodhrán is played using a dumbbell-shaped wooden beater called a tipper. The bodhrán is now the unchallenged drum for Irish traditional music, but its widespread use in that role really dates only as far back as the folk music revival of the 1960s.