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July 31, 2015: Mutts Day; Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day

July 31, 2015: Mutts Day; Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day
July 31, 2015: Mutts Day; Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day

It’s time for another installment in the yearly ode to uncommon musical instruments! This year we have the alphorn, also known as the alpenhorn or alpine horn. It may go back as far as 1400 AD, and is thought to have been used for community communication/signals in areas that lacked church bells.

You may know the alphorn from such places as the old Ricola commercial: