Alphorn

It's amazing.

And the Alpenhorn gentleman that we saw, you know, the way that they were able to communicate with each other by using that horn.

The horn was a surprise, too.

You'd think, well, what is that Johnny One note? Well, they can do 12 different notes, but the beauty of it.

I appreciate your hard work on that.

It was the Tahoe Alphorn experience.

It was so good.

For a long time, we talked about doing this discussion on care of your alphorns.

Yeah.

There's Alphorn players.

Alphorn?

Like the big old, like, that go down to the ground.

Like from the Ricola commercials.

It was raining in Lucerne most of the time.

Mandy, you need to add you plow.

No, I also played one of those Alpenhorns, Anthony.

You know the long,

recall those? I played one.

Yeah.

We had a terrific conversation today with Katie and Stasia of the Alphorn Project, and you'll get to hear much more about their backgrounds and their, their unique paths, uh, in, in music and on the horn.

But, uh, I just thought it was a terrific conversation about this new initiative they have to bring, um, uh, an instrument that has probably been most familiar to people through, uh, a certain cough drop commercial, the, the alphorn, the Swiss alphorn.

But it's so much more than that.

Yes.

They, they walked us through some of the, the nuts and bolts on how alphorns work and where they come from, and we got a wonderful soundbite that I can't wait for you to hear at the end, which is, "It's a tube.

It's just fun." So with that in mind, I hope that you enjoy this episode that we have on The Alphorn Project.

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Thank you.

Uh, I'm gonna do a little call-out to Gregoire and, uh, and, um, my, uh, Alp Horn mentor, uh, Martin Roos, who are the creators of this crazy idea.

That came out of COVID, actually, because-

Really?

Well, she and I have talked about this.

We just f- both feel like this is a historic moment in time that we should be documenting some of this through, you know, what we've tried to do with the, with the Alphorn Project, with the Alphorn Podcast, with i- with the newsletter, with all...

It's just this historic time that we need to document this, and she's been doing an amazing job of building these videos and preserving some of this.

It, it's really good.

I mean, they've, the SF group plays with the Sierra group a lot.

Sadie and the University of Pacific students have come up and played with the Sierra group a lot, and they're just this amazing group that is so, they love each other, they wanna play together, and everybody's welcome to come play with you.

Well, it- that's right, and that's another thing that when you asked what was a highlight for me, and I know it's amazing as we talk about this how incredibly rich and in depth our weekend was because we haven't even talked about, you know, another huge highlight for all of us, and speaking of the Alphorn Project, is that we had the University of Pacific students that came up for the second year.

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Stomp, stomp, stomp through the evergreen.

Alphorn cry from the darkened past, then the bass falls hard like an avalanche.

Circle the fire, crowd goes wild.

Old world grin with a future child.