Synthetic Conch Shells

Fascinating. I didn't know conch shells produce notes in the harmonic series. Never having tried to play one, I would have expected to just hear one very loud note.

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I wonder how much this would change the sound. What kind of music can be produced now?

What do you think the worlds first instrument

By the way Love the sound

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Interesting idea, 2x👍

I wonder what one actually made of brass would sound like.

Presumably synthetic shells can be produced for specific notes too? Rather than it being pot luck for the natural ones

Those are imitation whelks, often mistaken for the conch. Not the same.

Its like, some joke about all the plastic in the ocean or something

I know this wouldn't really match any content on your channel, but I'd love to hear about your weight loss. As a musician currently struggling with my weight and I'd be interested to hear some dos and don'ts from someone who has come out the other side.

My Highschool marching band went to Hawaii for the Aloha Festival way back in the ancient times. One of my favorite memories from the trip is me and a few other low brass players bought some conch shells from the open air markets there and had a jam session outside of the hotel. Playing all our stand music like Louie Louie and Loveshack and whatnot on the shells. It was a blast and surprisingly easy to get some good sounds out of them. You definitely couldn't get all the notes, but it was close enough to sound good.

Steve Turré, Conch Shell player and Trombonist.

In 2021, my husband and I were on Hawai’i Island (aka Big Island). We were preparing to drive to the top of Mauna Kea and during our required 30+ minute adjustment period around 9000 feet at the visitors’ center, there was a group of Hawaiian men preparing to leave an offering in sacred points on the mauna. Just before they started hiking a trail closed to non-natives, they blew a conch shell. It was really neat to hear, and I decided that, as a trumpet player, I need a conch. I also need a shofar, but that’s a little different.

No Conch was killed in the making of these musical instruments. Needless to say, there are subscribers to this channel who are so relieved. ☺

Though spelled almost like a sofa...
the are pronounced like the Kinks' former recording studio,
KONK.

Yes we need more plastic... sustainable my ass.

Back in high school, our band played 2 movements from the Bora Bora Suite. The beginning of the 3rd movement started with two conch shell notes. We actually used a real conch shell.

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I'm stoked for your videos on the bukkehorn and the midwinterhoorn

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Been a while since I checked in and seen 9ne of your videos. Did you lose weight or something? You look great dude!

Our band has these e-flat marching horns that we have but we don't have the mouthpieces for him so we're not able to play them and even if we had the mouthpieces they don't work at all but I was wondering if maybe you wanted to try taking a look at it Trent maybe you can do a video like explaining them and talking about them. But you have to have your own mouth piece for it if you were too cuz we're not able to find them anywhere on the internet and trust me, i have looked it brings me to mellophone or French horn mouthpieces

They may cost a lot but DO look cheap.

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I think I’ll stick to my Bach and a Yamaha.

As long as they’re synthetic, might as well make some bass ones with more of the harmonic series available. or ones with a slide. Conchbone.

Hi trent what trumpet would you recomend for an intermediage trumpet player, like ajythung under £500?

Considering plastics general impact on the environment versus renewable resources like animals and plants (when farmed responsibly) I’m dubious of claims that plastic is better environmentally. Especially for something with such low demand like conch shells for playing. Cant be a huge market. Just saying.

You can buy them for like 10 bucks in india that are about that size

I wish you explained how it worked