2017 Switzerland 20 Franc Silver Proof Coin "Yodeling"

• Mint: swissmint
• Denomination: 20 Francs
• Quality: Proof
• Limits: 5,000 pcs.
• Alloy: 83.5% Silver
• Diameter: 33 mm
• Weight: 20 grams
• Artist: Gabriel Giger
• Delivered in capsule & box with certificate

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This issue celebrates the form of song known as yodeling.

Yodeling had its origins in the call from mountain to mountain, the communication from Alp to Alp. Recognisable from the very first few notes, this Alpine music has the love for nature and home as its central themes.

Yodeling is a form of singing that involves singing with repeated changes in pitch from the chest register to the head register without using words that mean anything. As described this way, yodeling is spread worldwide. It is especially in mountainous and inaccessible regions that natural yodeling communication forms have developed in order to communicate from one hill to the other or to bring in the cows. Although yodeling was probably being used back in the Stone Age, the choir singing of the yodeling songs only developed in the 19th century.