NENDAZ, Switzerland (Reuters) - The soft sounds of hundreds of wooden Swiss alpine horns filled the valley below Switzerland's Mount Tracouet on Sunday, as the world's largest festival of its kind ...

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 ...

West Virginia is no stranger to mountain music, though the variety heard this weekend in Fayette County was a bit different. Sunday afternoon, overlooking the New River Gorge, 10 Alphorn players held ...

LOWELL, Mich. — Bellowing horns from the Swiss Alps have made their way to West Michigan for the 10th year as the Midwest Alphorns began their weekend retreat on Friday. An alphorn is a large ...

WALLOWA LAKE — It’s not new, but Oregon’s Alpenfest has a new, 50-year-old alphorn as the official instrument of the festival, held each fall in Oregon’s “Little Switzerland.” The half-century-old ...

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 ...

This 2003 documentary by Stefan Schwietert may sound like a Saturday Night Live goof—familiar from Swiss tourism ads, the alpenhorn (or alphorn) is a traditional wind instrument measuring between 10 ...