Swiss Alphorns
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Alphorn Web links

Alphorn sound clip (Grindelwald)
This short but pleasant WAV file is on the home page of the Grindelwald tourist office.

Rocky Mountain Alphorns
William Hopson, a French horn player in the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, builds his own alphorns--and despite being a foreigner, he earned rave reviews with an alphorn performance at the 1997 Cantonal Festival in Berne.

Restaurant Stadtkeller, Lucerne
Sure, it's a tourist show, but why be a snob? Enjoy alphorns, yodeling, cowbells, and other folk music with lunch or dinner in the vaulted dining room of this historic restaurant.

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Yodeling switzerlandforvisitors.com
Yodeling is to Switzerland and Austria what the Beach Boys are to Southern California, or what hog calling is to the Ozarks. Listen to "the language of the mountains" (or even learn how to yodel) before you leave home.

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