Many years ago I stayed at a resort on Kauai in Hawaii, called Coconut Palms
or Grove (I later heard it burned).  This was a large compound among many
palm trees.  Accommodations were individual bungalows.
 
Before dinner each night, there was a call to assemble in a particular part
of the compound.  A Hawaiian blew a large trumpet triton.  Considering the
abundance of the trees which muffled it, it was indeed loud, and I would say
would have sufficed as a fog horn.
 
Sylvia S. Edwards
Huntsville, Alabama
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----- Original Message -----
From: Art Weil <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Mollusks in the Bible
 
 
> Dear David;-
>         Thanks for allowing me to be partially right. It's more than I
deserve.
> I'm wondering, however, if anyone among us has ever tried to blow a
> shell-trumpet. I tried it with a triton once back in Lost Angeles but
> all I could get out of it was something that sounded exactly like the
> final breath of an expiring dinosaur. (dont ask how I know what that
> sounds like.) I would think that any shell sound would be pretty limited
> in both range and distance. Is it true that such shells were once used
> as fog-horns in the Pacific?
>         Art
>