Drumming benefits

"Drumming has positive impact on mental health finds Royal College of Music study"
https://www.rcm.ac.uk/press/Drumming%20and%20mental%20health.pdf

Participating in a drumming circle allows the resident with dementia who may have lost executive abilities, to take an object and affect another object - and sustain that activity. It provides for meaningful sound when communication skills have deteriorated.
https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/conditions/dementia/edge/interventions/bethabraham/index#:~:text=Participating%20in%20a%20drumming%20circle,when%20communication%20skills%20have%20deteriorated.

The Use of a Drum Circle to Improve the Symptoms and Signs of Parkinson's Disease
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914050/

Composite effects of group drumming music therapy on modulation of neuroendocrine-immune parameters in normal subjects
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11191041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914050/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914050/

"Drumming for women during pregnancy and labour is a skill and tool to be reclaimed, this is something women have been doing for much, much longer than they haven’t".
https://janehardwickecollings.com/drumming-during-pregnancy-labour/

Complementary therapy for addiction: "drumming out drugs"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12660212/

Cymatics
https://cymascope.com/cymatics-intro/

The deer...

The deer have lived on Fen Farm with Peter and Jane whose family have been farming the land at Horbling Fen for over 100 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horbling

Since we have worked with Peter and Jane the skin is no longer wasted, honouring the deer's life by creating raw hide to make drum.

They are red deer (cervus elaphus), the largest native deer. They go into the rut in September through to October, with calves being born late May/early June. Calves grow quickly on the spring grass and stay with their mothers well into the winter, when they are weaned

Benny prepares all the rawhide himself

one hide is used per drum working with the same