{{Short description|Musical instrument made from the horn of a ram or goat}} {{no footnotes|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox Instrument | name = Bukkehorn | image = File:Bockhorn - SMV - X22 01.tif | image_capt = A Swedish ''Bockhorn'' | background = woodwind | names = Bockhorn, Billy goat horn | classification = *Wind *Aerophone }}
A '''bukkehorn''' (Norwegian) or '''bockhorn''' (Swedish), also called ″Billy Goat Horn″ in English, is an ancient Scandinavian musical instrument, made from the horn of a sheep or a goat. The horn is usually made from a goat horn harvested 5 to 7 years before the instrument is crafted. It was traditionally used by shepherds and milkmaids on summer dairy farms in the mountains, as a signal-instrument or as a scaring instrument. It is most commonly played by buzzing one's lips against the mouthpiece, but versions with a single reed similar to that of a clarinet also exist.
==See also== * Music of Norway * Music of Sweden * Swedish cowhorn * Cowhorn * Shofar
==External links== * Karl Seglem plays the bukkehorn: https://web.archive.org/web/20150411044854/http://www.karlseglem.no/appbox/modules/cutecms/?key=biography&lg=en_en * {{ill|Sissel Morken Gullord|no}} plays the bukkehorn in Disney's ''Frozen'': https://web.archive.org/web/20131113212448/http://gullord.no/index.php/en/my-work
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Category:Norwegian musical instruments