Editing Alphorn (section)

{{Short description|Long wooden musical horn}}
{{Infobox instrument
| name           = Alphorn
| image          = Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin - Alphorn in Fis - 1108187.jpg
| caption        = Alphorn, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, Berlin
| background     = brass
| classification = {{hlist
    | [[Aerophone]]
    | [[Wind instrument]]
    | [[Brass instrument|Labrosone]]
  }}
| hornbostel_sachs = 423.121.12
| hornbostel_sachs_desc = End-blown straight labrosones with [[mouthpiece (brass)|mouthpiece]]<ref name="MIMO-HS">{{Cite web |title=End-blown straight labrosones with mouthpiece |work=Hornbostel-Sachs (classification) |publisher=Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO) |url= https://vocabulary.mimo-international.com/HornbostelAndSachs/en/page/344 |access-date=10 November 2024 }}</ref>
| musicians      = 
| builders       = 
| related        = [[Bucium]], [[trembita]]
| articles       = 
}}
[[Image:Bardentreffen 2009 2169.jpg|thumb|[[Eliana Burki]] playing the alphorn at the Bardentreffen festival in [[Nuremberg]] 2009]]

The '''alphorn''' ({{langx|de|'''Alphorn''', '''Alpenhorn'''}}; {{langx|fr|'''cor des Alpes'''}}; {{langx|it|'''corno alpino'''}}) is a traditional [[Brass instrument|lip-reed]] [[wind instrument]]. It consists of a very long straight wooden [[natural horn]], with a length of {{convert|3|to|4|m|ft|sigfig=2|abbr=off}}, a [[bore (wind instruments)|conical bore]] and a wooden cup-shaped [[mouthpiece (brass)|mouthpiece]]. Traditionally the alphorn was made in one piece from the trunk of a [[Pinus sylvestris|pine]].<ref name="Cambridge-2019">{{Cite Q|Q114571908|first=Murray |last=Campbell |date=2019 |chapter=Alphorn |page=18-20}}</ref> Modern alphorns are usually made in three detachable sections for easier transport and handling, carved from blocks of [[Picea abies|spruce]].<ref name="THE MAKING OF AN ALPHORN">{{cite web |title=The Making Of An Alphorn |url=https://www.nendazcordesalpes.ch/en/alphorn/the-making-of-an-alphorn |publisher=Valais drink pure |website=www.nendazcordesalpes.ch/en |access-date=13 October 2021 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029172430/https://www.nendazcordesalpes.ch/en/alphorn/the-making-of-an-alphorn |url-status=dead }}</ref> The alphorn is used by rural communities in the Alps. Similar wooden horns were used for [[communication]] in most mountainous regions of [[Europe]], from the [[Alps]] to the [[Carpathian Mountains|Carpathians]].<ref name="Cambridge-2019"/>