Birch trumpet
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The birch trumpet is a type of natural trumpet made of spruce covered with birch bark, known in Norway, Sweden, Finland, England, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Estonia. Even cruder and less
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Two tuohitorvi in the Finnish National Museum, with the one in front being modelled after a brass bugle
Swedish birch trumpet
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
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…Jan Nordkvist at the company Lurmakaren in Tällberg With length up to 4–5 meters are known from the Alps (alphorn), Carpathian Mountains, and Pyrenees. Midwinter horn mainly known from the border area between Germany and Netherlands in Bentheim and Twente. It is…
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.