RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. Germans are reviving the perfect musical instrument for social distancing - alphorns.
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MARTIN: The large wooden horns can be more than 10 feet in length. They are traditional in the Alps, and they sound like this.
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MARTIN: These professional alphorn players serenaded the German city of Dresden from the top of a towering apartment building this weekend - a very 2020 use of an instrument built to be heard from miles in the 19th-century Alps. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.