With the Alphorn it concerns a long straight, wood horn bent down. The designation Alphorn was used however in earlier times also for other Herdsmen instruments in the alpine regions and it usually served for the communication in inaccessible and hilly areas. Therefore those is today unknown to place of birth and hour of the Alphorns until, also when the instrument in the general-outer came. The oldest occupied description decreases/goes back on 1555 and is a monastery calculation from Wallis taken.

Can be recognized accurately, that the today common instruments from solid wood in manual work to be manufactured.
The Alphorn constantly finds more for the 70's at attention. Ever more humans find the entrance to the herdsmen instrument, the derider oldest “mobile phone” call. It served nevertheless always the transmission of news.