The players formed a wide semi-circle at Tracouet above the ski resort of Haute Nendaz in southern Switzerland for the country's annual alphorn competition, which celebrates the musical instrument in ...

Linda Loncaric Arico wanted to learn how to play the alphorn, a Swiss musical instrument. She reached out to the Alpine Hills Museum in Sugarcreek and was put in contact with Fred Welsch, a retired ...

If you go out in the woods today, you could be in for a big surprise, for you may stumble not upon a teddy bear picnic, but two alphorn aficionados who hike miles and miles with their alphorns to ...

What is thought to be the UK's largest gathering of alpine horn enthusiasts has been staged in Berkshire. Eleven members of the UK Alphorn Network (UKAN) brought their instruments to Downe House ...

Arre, not like that. Make a car engine's noise," said a friend, as others tried hard to control their laughter. I was clearly embarrassing myself in an attempt to play the traditional Alpine musical ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. The hills were alive with the sound of music on Sunday (July 28) as 3,500 people braved the heights of Switzerland's ...

For some, it’s the first time they’ve seen their friends in three years. For others, it’s a chance to bring out their traditional embroidered dresses or velvet Berner jackets trimmed in firecracker ...

For Beat Heeb, playing the alphorn along B.C.'s Okanagan Lake takes him back to his boyhood roots. The Peachland, B.C., resident came to Canada in 1976 from Lucerne, a German-speaking lakeshore city ...

A hundred alphorn players gather high up in the Swiss Alps for the 22nd International Alphorn Festival, with their dulcet tones and harmonies echoing around the mountains. The alphorn is a traditional ...

High up in the Swiss Alps, a hundred alphorn players assembled on a windswept pasture Sunday to make the mountains ring in gentle harmonies at the 22nd International Alphorn Festival. The Barron's ...