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Breath is what makes the Alphorn work. The player blows through a mouthpiece on the narrower, upper end of a long tube. Sound comes out of the other end of the tube. It keeps company in the brass instrument family with the French horn, the sousaphone, the Trombone, the Trumpet, and the tuba.

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