Tikiskip : Makes a Conch Shell Horn

Had a few shells laying around so I made some horns out o them.
It's not hard to do and you can find many ways to do it on youtube.
Best tip is don't make the hole too big as this makes them harder to play.

The two horns I made are on the far left of photo.
The third shell is hard to play as the hole is too big.
Just under the size of a dime is the right size, hey you can always make it bigger.
And ALWAYS wear a mask when you drill or grind/cut shells.

Every shell will have a different sound it's cool when you play two shells at once
and get them to harmonize, sounds like a old boat air horn.

How to Make a Conch Shell Horn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebzN79oNTJg

Now play the dam things....

Steve Turre playin' on shells :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkuq6prZHoA

Skip, you make such cool things.

Thank you.

But this only took me like 20 minutes tops.
And mine play better than the ones I have bought.

Plus how cool is it to say "Sure I can make one of those, and play it too."

I urge you all to make one, the shell I got for my last one was $2.00 bucks.

Nice big one Skip. Now you can make a Mylomor Bird. When you blow in his butt you can hear it for a mile of more :wink:

Interesting Mike.
Found a few more different shell sizes and need to cut em.

Just no time to do it.

My brother in law plays trumpet, like all the time, well he can really
paly one of these shells and get many notes from one.

But then he is also a music teacher.

Made one. My son blows it better than I do....

https://youtu.be/dR7BiDH6K08

howlinowl

What a cutie pie. The shell sounds great, Wendy

I still have my two shells, one I bought and one I was gifted.

One of them is a bit hard to sound, I think the blow-hole is a bit too wee.... could be as simple as just cutting off a tiny slice to make the hole bigger? Anyone tried to modify an existing shell this way?

On 2015-06-12 05:26, Chip and Andy wrote:
I still have my two shells, one I bought and one I was gifted.

One of them is a bit hard to sound, I think the blow-hole is a bit too wee.... could be as simple as just cutting off a tiny slice to make the hole bigger? Anyone tried to modify an existing shell this way?

I was thinking of grounding mine out a bit with a dremel tool, but probably won't now because it'll mess it up for my son. Gonna pick up another one and make one for myself.

howlinowl

All right howlinowl.
The ones that work best for me are that mid size shell.
Yours sounds good.

Have made two since start of this post, got one more small shell to cut.
You can kinda ream out the holes to make that play better.

BUT if you get hole too big you are done, and there is no fix I would guess.
Just take a bat to it.

But then you can find these for like two bucks if you look hard enough.

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