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00:00I'm Stuart Wood and I'm the musician-in-residence at the Huntington and

00:04Langham estate which is a care home for people living with dementia and also

00:09people who are in later life or living with long-term conditions and we've had

00:15here donated some instruments from percussion play who are makers of these

00:22large sculptural musical instruments. This one is called a Liberty Bell and it has

00:30three sets of bells each with four notes and I'll play these ones so you can hear

00:38what they sound like

00:43and this one is tuned the same but at a different tone so these are part of a

00:51research residency which is asking a big question about what happens when we

01:00play percussion instruments like these outdoors. We know quite a lot about the

01:06benefits of playing musical instruments and playing percussion and we're

01:10starting to know quite a lot about what it's like being outdoors in care and in

01:14community settings but we've never really brought those questions together so over

01:19the weekend we've been bringing residents and families and staff out to these

01:27instruments which are dotted around here and by the lake and also public parts of

01:32the home and we've just been exploring what it's like to play them, get together, try

01:38to play tunes or try to just have fun and we've been learning about how these

01:44instruments evoke and make possible different types of communication,

01:51interaction and expression and we've really learned that they open up many

01:57different possibilities and they create a lot of pleasure so we're looking forward

02:02to as I leave and I'm not the musician in residence anymore how they're going to be

02:09able to keep this kind of experience going and there's many musical people who live

02:15here and work here and who visit here and so we're looking forward to seeing how

02:20that gets along in future and how musical they continue being with these lovely

02:25instruments out here.

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