noun
- a long wooden horn used traditionally by herdsmen in the Alps
Usage: musical instrument
Examples
- The shepherd played a haunting melody on his alphorn.
- We heard the deep, resonant sound of an alphorn echoing across the valley.
- The alphorn is carved from a single piece of wood.
- Swiss musicians demonstrated the traditional alphorn at the festival.
- The alphorn’s call could be heard for miles in the mountain air.
- She learned to play the alphorn during her summer in Switzerland.