Largest alphorn ensemble – world record: 1006 alphorn players play together – News

• The old world record has been broken: over a thousand alphorn players played together on the Klewenalp NW.
• The goal was to play complete choir melodies for five minutes in order to make it into the Guinness Book of Records.

A total of 1006 wind players gathered. The event was organized by the Swiss Yodeling Association and the Beckenried-Emmetten mountain railways.

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Originally, it was planned that at least the 555 musicians needed for the world record would take part – but then almost twice as many people registered for the festival. The alphorn players come from all over Switzerland. Swiss people also traveled from abroad.

Also present was a delegate from the Guinness World Records company. Since 1955, the company has published the Guinness Book of Records, which contains human achievements, extreme values ​​and natural phenomena.