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bodhran

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bodh·ran  (brän, bou-)
n.
A hand-held goatskin drum used in traditional Irish music and often played with a stick.
[Irish Gaelic bodhrán, from Middle Irish bodrán, from Old Irish, from bodar, deaf, deafening.]


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