Happy Birthday Switzerland
On the first of August we celebrated Switzerlands 725th birthday 🇨🇭🎉 On the picture you see 8 musicians playing the “Alphorn” which is a traditional Swiss instrument 🎶 The picture was taken in Leukerbad, a small Swiss village in the alpine region.
The alphorn consists of a wooden natural horn of conical bore, having a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers in in the Swiss Alps region. Back in the time, these wooden horns were used for communication in many mountainous regions but nowadays it mainly used as an instrument and also for touristic occasions 🙂