About Alp Horn....

The Swiss Alp Horn Or Alpine Horn.

Alp Horn today used as the musical instruments once was used by the Shepherds and the people in the entire Alp Mountains to communicate from valley to valley over the mountains.
Looks like a super size smoking pipe , over 3 metres long, The Alphorn is carved from spruce and sometimes pine wood. In former times the Alphorn maker would find a tree bent at the base in the shape of an Alphorn, but modern makers piece the wood together at the base. A cup-shaped mouthpiece carved out of a block of hard wood is added and the instrument is complete.

“It is magic because the sound of the Alphorn is really catching, it deeply moves you, it gives you chills”.

Switzerland even has an Alphorn academy, that seeks to promote the instrument at home and around the world.
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