What is Alphorn?

Alphorn is another name for a specific tool called Alpenhorn , a pastoral tool from the Alps, as well as a name used for a group of what is sometimes called folk trumpets. Tools in the Alphorn family or carrying considerable similarity are used since antiquity for warning and signaling. Among the oldest examples of similar tools are the corner of Ram's Shofar, used by the Israelites and wooden didjerida Australian natives. Although Alphorn has a strong association with Switzerland, similar tools can be found in Sweden, Russia, Romania, Germany and Hungary.

The real alforn is made of wood - whether birch, cherries, spruce, fir, lime or poplar - and secured with bark, such as birch, stick, intestines or root material. Some corners have a woodcarver or sophisticated painted decoration. The bell can be straight or curved. There are two types of Alphorn mouthpiece: some are made of wood, either formed at the end of the Alphorn body or carved separately or is to the body alphorn pCornet mouthpiece. Today, twenty Swiss companies produce Alphorns, using beech or plastic for mouthpieces, and are tuned by electronics.

Alphorn can be long from 4 to 12 feet (1.2–3.7 m). Due to its large length, the end of Alphorn is often based on a slightly specially made position on the ground. Alphorn is played similarly to brass tools: the playground is controlled by paint and can cover up to four octaves. Alphorn only produces tones in its harmonious series. Alfhorns have a gentle tone, somewhat similar to the French corner.

At the end of Beethoven's pastoral symphonies and Brahms Symphony No. 1 . In the twentieth century several concerts of Alphorn were written and the recordings were still carried out in the twentieth first century.