 D' Dieß'ner alphorn players The alphorn is a wind instrument, consisting of a natural wooden horn of conical bore, having a cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland and elsewhere. Similar wooden horn were used in most mountainous regions of Europe, from Sweden to the Romanian Carpathians. Alphorn, D Dießner alphorn players. ...
Alphorn, D Dießner alphorn players. ...
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube), in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at the end of the resonator. ...
Trumpet mouthpiece from the side On brass instruments the mouthpiece is that part of the instrument which is placed next to the players mouth. ...
The alphorn is carved from solid softwood, generally spruce but sometimes pine. In former times the alphorn maker would find a tree bent at the base in the shape of an alphorn, but modern makers piece the wood together at the base. A cup-shaped mouthpiece carved out of a block of hard wood is added and the instrument is complete.
The alphorn has no lateral openings and therefore gives the pure natural harmonic series of the open pipe. The harmonics are the more readily obtained by reason of the small diameter of the bore in relation to the length. An alphorn made at Rigi-Kulm, Schwyz, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, measures 8 ft. in length and has a straight tube. The Cromwell Road entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum viewed from Thurloe Square The main interior courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2004. ...
 A Swiss playing alphorn near a mountain lake The well-known Ranz des Vaches is the traditional melody of the alphorn from French Switzerland. The song describes the time of bringing the cows to the high country at cheese making time. Rossini introduced the melody into his opera William Tell. Brahms was clear that the inspiration for the great melody that opens the last movement of his First Symphony (played in the orchestra by the horn) was an alphorn melody he heard in the Rigi area of Switzerland. Download high resolution version (897x687, 159 KB)A Swiss playing an alphorn near a lake This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
Download high resolution version (897x687, 159 KB)A Swiss playing an alphorn near a lake This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
Portrait Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ...
Johannes Brahms. ...
The horn is a brass instrument that consists of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. ...
The Swiss alphorn varies in shape according to the locality, being curved near the bell in the Bernese Oberland. Michael Praetorius mentions an alphorn-like instrument under the name of Hölzern Trummet (wooden trumpet) in Syntagma Musicum (Wittenberg, 1615-1619; Pl. VIII). Michael Praetorius. ...
This is the horn featured in Ricola cough drop commercials. The Ricola AG is the best known cough drop manufacturers of Switzerland. ...
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Music for Alphorn Among music composed for the alphorn: - Sinfonia Pastorella for Alphorn and String Orchestra by Leopold Mozart
- Concerto for alphorn and orchestra by Jean Daetwyler
- Concertino rustico by Ference Farkas
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a composer, music teacher and violinist. ...
Jean Daetwyler (1907-1994) was a Swiss composer and musician. ...
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