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Alphorn

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Alphornvereinigung Berner Oberland - Oberländer Choral 2010

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Battle of the Alpine Horns

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GoPro Music: Amazing Alphorn Beatbox

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Lisa Stoll - Alphorn

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Brahms Alphorn Melody

The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a straight several-meter-long wooden natural horn of conical bore, with a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece. It is used by mountain dwellers in the Swiss Alps, Austrian Alps, Bavarian Alps in Germany, French Alps, and elsewhere. Similar wooden horns were used for communication in most mountainous regions of Europe, from the Alps to the Carpathians. Alphorns are today used as musical instruments.