KEY WEST — Making music with a conch (pronounced "konk") shell might seem unusual, but several dozen people tried it during the weekend's annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest in the Florida Keys.

Conch shells wake up towns and herald voyages, drums punctuate whole stories told through intricate rhythmic patterns and dancing, and the unity fanning out to polyphony of voices sing a tropical ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Conch shells can be transformed into musical instruments and seeing how this is done is fascinating. A ...

Mager, a 35-year-old Key West resident, likens playing a conch shell to playing a brass instrument. P >Judges evaluated contest entrants, who ranged from less than 3 years old to seniors, on the ...

Twelve large conch shells found in Spain may have been used as trumpet-like instruments, according to new research. Two archaeologists from the University of Barcelona, Miquel López-García and ...