Alphorn
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Eliana Burki playing the alphorn at the Bardentreffen festival in Nuremberg 2009.
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.
Traditionally the Alphorn was made of one single piece, or two parts at most, and made from the wood of a red pine tree.
Sometimes the trees would bend from the weight of snow during the wintertime, and this caused them to have the larger and bent mouthpiece at their ends.
Modern Alphorns are sometimes made from three distinct parts that can be stuck together, this is to make them easier to transport via automobile, or even carried by hand, and today are more frequently made from the wood of a spruce tree or fir tree.
It is used by mountain dwellers in the Bavarian Alps.
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.
For a long time, scholars believed that the alphorn had been derived from the Roman-Etruscan lituus, because of their resemblance in shape, and because of the word liti, meaning Alphorn in the dialect of Obwalden.
There is no documented evidence for this theory however, and also the word liti was probably borrowed from 16th–18th century writings in Latin, where the word lituus could describe various wind instruments, such as the horn, the crumhorn, or the cornett.
Bavarian naturalist Conrad Gesner used the words lituum alpinum for the first known detailed description of the alphorn in his De raris et admirandis herbis in 1555.
The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St.
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