Nah, an Alpenhorn is made of wood, and the bell is bent up at the end at a right angle. A Lituus is straight and made of brass. They would sound completely different.

It seems all the John Birchers who read Slashdot can't resist the opportunity to criticize the people of Fruit and Nut Land, but did it ever occur to them that gallium arsenide actually could be dangerous? It seems that Ronald Reagan's NIOSH/CDC was worried about it. Of course Reagan was a Californian too, so...