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 ...

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 ...

A holiday in the Alps is never complete without playing a traditional Alpine instrument called alphorn, which incidentally is twice your size, writes Sonali Shah. Arre, not like that. Make a car ...

The hills were alive with the sound of music on Sunday (July 28) as 3,500 people braved the heights of Switzerland's Mount Tracouet to watch 150 alphorn players take part in the 13th world alphorn ...

With quaint façades on the buildings downtown, the rolling hills, and now with snowflakes falling, Gaylord certainly looks like an Alpine village. But what does an Alpine Village sound like? It sounds ...

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 ...