Conch horn fail
20 March 2018 | Near Staniel Cay
Sunny, windy, 77
Defrosted the fridge this morning.
Roger told me the other day how terribly disappointed he was that I had not made a conch horn yet. Well, maybe he just said disappointed. Every day, as the sun begins to set, several sailboats will sound a conch horn. It is a cool and somewhat haunting sound. If you play the trumpet, you can sound the horn, or is it the other way around? I went on YouTube and watched some videos on how to make the horn, but they were not very clear on chipping out the inside of the mouthpiece. So my first cut with the hacksaw was in the correct spot, but when it appeared there would be no opening in the shell there, I stopped and made the cut at the next larger ring. That was bad and my “mouthpiece” was now too large. I may try again with another shell. One thing I do know - the shells are tough. I replaced the blade on my hacksaw to cut through mine. The old, used blade was simply not cutting it.