(Ger.).
A wooden trumpet in general, and, more specifically, an Alphorn or alpenhorn, a long Alpine (Swiss) folk instrument or a bent trumpet (Büchel) of the horn family with a cup-shaped mouthpiece, made of wood, which plays simple tunes (for example, ranz des vaches) using ten to 15 harmonics. Similar traditional instruments are known in other countries such as Romania (bucium, tulnic, trômbita), Hungary (fakürt), Slovakia (tramba salaska), Slovenia (busen), Poland (trombita, Serbia (rikalo), Sweden (lur) and Lithuania (ragas, trimitas, dandytė).
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