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Ranz des Vaches
A Ranz des Vaches is a simple melody traditionally played on the horn by the Swiss Alpine herdsmen as they drove their cattle to or from the pasture. James Wood writing in the Nuttall Encyclopedia in 1907 said that such a tune "when played in foreign lands, produces on a Swiss an almost irrepressible yearning for home.
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