Yes, this occurred at one of their gig(a)s.
Karen
 
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Helmut Nisters wrote:
 
> I know what is Strombus samba. When the musicians were blowing
> on Strombus gigas, a part of them danced Samba Ha, ha, ha.
>
> Helmut from Innsbruck
>
> Helmut Nisters
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> or
>
> Natural History Department of the
> Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
> malacological collection
> Feldstr. 11a
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37
>
> ----------
> > Since we have been hitting the Strombus gigas recently.  Has anyone
> > noticed a difference between the S. gigas from the Keys and the S. gigas
> > now available from Haiti?  I have a couple S. gigas collected in the
> > Keys years ago and they have relatively small knobs on the spire whorls
> > out onto the last whorl, rather than the obvious spines I see on most
> > shells now offered.  Is this just a coincidence or is there really some
> > variability?
> >
> > Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA
> >
>