Usually means: Traditional Swiss long wooden horn.
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  1. alphorn: Merriam-Webster
  2. alphorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alphorn: Collins English Dictionary
  4. alphorn: Wordnik
  5. alphorn: Wiktionary
  6. alphorn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. alphorn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. alphorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. alphorn: Dictionary.com
  10. Alphorn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. alphorn: FreeDictionary.org
  12. alphorn: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. alphorn: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (alphorn)

noun:  (music) A long, curved, wooden horn used by mountain-dwelling herders in the Alps, originally to call cattle but now only as musical instrument in classical and folk tunes.

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