Alphorn
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The alphorn is a traditional lip-reed wind instrument. It consists of a long straight wooden natural horn, with a length of 3 to 4 metres, a conical bore and a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece. The alphor
Alphorn, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, Berlin
Eliana Burki playing the alphorn at the Bardentreffen festival in Nuremberg 2009
Alphorn bell detail
Alphorn (F#) in 3 parts + mouthpiece, about 1.2 m.
Brass instrument
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A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. The term labrosone, from Lati
Alphorn
…The alphorn (German: Alphorn, Alpenhorn; French: cor des Alpes; Italian: corno alpino) is a traditional lip-reed wind instrument. It consists of a long straight wooden natural horn, with a length of 3 to 4 metres (9.8 to 13 feet), a conical bore and a wooden…
Six high brass instruments Left, from top: A reproduction baroque trumpet in D, a modern trumpet in B♭, a modern trumpet in D, a piccolo trumpet in B♭ (octave higher), and a flugelhorn in B♭. Right: a cornet in B♭.
A tenor horn (alto horn) in E♭, baritone horn in B♭, and euphonium in B♭
Brass instrument piston valves
Flugelhorn with three pistons and a trigger