The large wooden horns which are traditional in the Alps can be more than 10 feet in length. Over the weekend, professionals serenaded the German city of Dresden from the top of an apartment building.

The young man picks up a heavy wooden horn, raises it to his lips and with widened eyes and puffed cheeks starts to blow. A primal rumble emerges from the mouth of the instrument. On a stony hill in ...

It was a a blow but the record had to go sometime. More than 500 Alpine horn players today broke the world mark for the largest number of people playing the instrument. Clad in traditional Swiss ...