Linda Loncaric Arico wanted to learn how to play the alphorn, a Swiss musical instrument. She reached out to the Alpine Hills Museum in Sugarcreek and was put in contact with Fred Welsch, a retired ...

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 ...

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 ...

CARMEL – The alphorn players were beautifully in tune, even getting a capable assist from Mayor Jim Brainard on "O Tannebaum" and other classics of the Christmas season. The Christkind, a living ...

Travel to the Alpine region and celebrate Oktoberfest without leaving the state at the Musical Instrument Museum’s Experience the Alps event this weekend. Learn to yodel and taste authentic foods.

BERNE, Switzerland -- The alphorn, a 12-foot-long wooden folk instrument played by Swiss shepherds to communicate across mountain valleys, hasn't exactly been the inspiration for many rock stars.

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 ...