{"id":24793,"date":"2021-02-11T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/rock-show#id29086"},"modified":"2021-02-11T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T14:44:00","slug":"this-is-the-sound-of-an-18000-year-old-conch-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/this-is-the-sound-of-an-18000-year-old-conch-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the sound of an 18,000-year-old conch shell."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shell was discovered in a cave in France in 1931, though archaeologists at the time overlooked a key detail: The object was almost certainly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/listen-to-an-18000-year-old-instrument-sing-once-more\/\">intended as an instrument<\/a>, with a carefully removed tip to allow airflow and create sound. Now, researchers have shown how the shell was originally modified to play music, and to substantiate their findings they asked a musician to play the shell:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/982468906&amp;color=ff5500&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_teaser=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wired\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"  title=\"WIRED\">WIRED<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wired\/the-sound-of-an-18000-year-old-conch-shell-instrument\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"  title=\"The Sound of an 18,000-year-old Conch Shell Instrument\">The Sound of an 18,000-year-old Conch Shell Instrument<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/listen-to-an-18000-year-old-instrument-sing-once-more\/\">WIRED<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/rock-show\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    The shell was discovered in a cave in France in 1931, though archaeologists at the time overlooked a key detail: The object was almost certainly intended as an instrument, with a carefully removed tip to allow airflow and create sound. No&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24794,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793\/revisions\/24794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}