Settling a swarm by means of banging a tin drum

[Curly green finger's]

Afternoon, on two occasions now I've heard of folk when a swarms in flight, they would bang on a tin drum not just one person but as many folk as possible, the swarm would then settle, is there any true in this?
Would the sound waves interfere with there flight path?
Is it to represent thunder?
These accounts are from farming family members.
What are your thoughts?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Tanging.
Seen it on YouTube. Read about it too.
Seems you’d have to be quite lucky to have a crowd of people out as a swarm flew by.
Unless of course you are standing by your hive as it swarms?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Tanging.
Seems you’d have to be quite lucky to have a crowd of people out as a swarm flew by.

Who all have a tin drum to hand............................

 

[Erichalfbee]

Curly, I think you just like to start weird threads.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Well I have accounts from family members that there was 4 of them out there banging on tin drums to make this swarm settle and it worked to the point my great uncle was able to hive the swarm that evening.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Who all have a tin drum to hand............................

Cymbals according to early literature.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Curly, I think you just like to start weird threads.

Nope honest accounts from years ago

 

[Erichalfbee]

Well I have accounts from family members that there was 4 of them out there banging on tin drums to make this swarm settle and it worked to the point my great uncle was able to hive the swarm that evening.

When I have seen my hives swarm they always congregate in a neighbouring tree and have been easy enough to get

 

[victor meldrew]

I think tanging was in vogue during skepist era!
skepists would sit it the apiary awaiting the emergence of swarms . Theory being , the tanging simulated a thunderstorm causing the swarm to settle .

 

[Erichalfbee]

Nope honest accounts from years ago

I never said it was a fabrication. It’s still a weird thread

 

[Curly green finger's]

Cymbals according to early literature.

Doesn't have to be a tin drum it could be a tin bucket or anything of the like.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Well I have accounts from family members that there was 4 of them out there banging on tin drums to make this swarm settle

all the historical records I've waded through over the years I've never seen mention that villages always had a handy cache of tin drums
or cymbals
Must be a inglish thing

 

[Curly green finger's]

I never said it was a fabrication. It’s still a weird thread

Maybe so but it still triggered my imagination as to why and it looks like I have my answer or answered my own question even @victor meldrew

 

[Curly green finger's]

all the historical records I've waded through over the years I've never seen mention that villages always had a handy cache of tin drums
or cymbals
Must be a inglish thing

My relatives aren't so English though are they, all Welsh and Austrian going back a generation or two.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

There was a tradition of driving our lunatics over the border.
Some said it was to improve the genetics
On both sides of the dyke

 

[Curly green finger's]

When I have seen my hives swarm they always congregate in a neighbouring tree and have been easy enough to get

Aye first stop is always local but by what I'm reading and conversation over the last few days these were swarms further away from the said hive

 

[Curly green finger's]

There was a tradition of driving our lunatics over the border.
Some said it was to improve the genetics
On both sides of the dyke

Funny that
Our farm isnt to far from the dyke, family history as far as I can find goes back to the 15 century on my ma side(Welsh) pa side goes back to (Austria)

 

[Erichalfbee]

So your mum is Welsh and your father Austrian? Or some generations back?

 

[Curly green finger's]

So your mum is Welsh and your father Austrian?

Yep