Tanging — my neighbor swears banging a pot made his swarm land. Old wives' tale or is there anything to it?

Minnesota first-year here. My elderly neighbor kept bees decades ago and yesterday, when a swarm (not mine!! checked!) went over our street, he ran out banging a saucepan with a wooden spoon and hollering. The swarm did actually settle in a maple two doors down and he is now insufferable about it. He says it's called 'tanging' and beekeepers have done it for centuries to make swarms come down. I can't tell if this is real — do bees even hear airborne sound? They responded to vibration in the comb in stuff I've read, but a saucepan in open air? Or did the swarm just... land, like swarms do, and he took credit? Genuinely curious if anyone has ever seen evidence either way.