A hundred alphorn players gather high up in the Swiss Alps for the 22nd International Alphorn Festival, with their dulcet tones and harmonies echoing around the mountains. The alphorn is a traditional Swiss instrument which was reputedly used to communicate in the mountains, with its clear sound ringing around the valleys.
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01:02 It's a feeling like to be in the mountains,
01:06 where the rocks are, where the glacier are, where you are.
01:11 I think it's a mountain feeling.
01:15 It's really-- it's not so easy to tell.
01:20 I think it's in you.
01:23 And for me, it's really important
01:25 that you are one part, the instrument and yourself.
01:29 So that will be--
01:31 that will give the feeling.
01:33 When I talk with people, I say to them, please come,
01:37 listen to that, and take the sound with you,
01:41 if you can.
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