Sound of the Alps
Lucerne on a sunny afternoon, has a radiant look. Next to the church of the Jesuits, a quartet of people trying to preserve the traditions gave us a small alphorn concert. The Swiss post is there. The instrument, the alphorn is a natural wooden horn with glass nozzle, tapered tube and top flared up at the end opposite the nozzle. Its length is variable, and although there are some of almost four meters, it usually measures between 1.5 and 3 meters long. Although there are no documents to prove a widespread theory about the origin of the instrument goes back to Etruscan and Roman times. However, the first detailed description is provided by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in 1555, while the oldest document in which it is mentioned in the book of accounts of the German abbey St.