alpenhorn
noun/ˈælpənhɔːn/
/ˈælpənhɔːrn/
(also alphorn)
- a very long wooden musical instrument that you blow into, used for signalling in the AlpsTopics Musicc2Word Originlate 19th cent.: from German, literally ‘Alp horn’.
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