mellophone

Intonation can also be an issue when playing the mellophone.

The band soon held seven musicians, who plays 36 instruments including the mellophone.

Fuller learned mellophone as a child before settling on trumpet.

The mellophone has three piston valve, operated with the right hand.

The Mello Cheer is performed by the band's mellophone section.

Two instruments are called a mellophone.

Another unfamiliar aspect of the mellophone is that it is played with the right hand instead of the left.

In addition to being a vocalist, Albers played the trumpet, mellophone and flugelhorn.

Elliott played mellophone in his high school band and played trumpet for an army band.

When using a horn mouthpiece, an adapter is commonly used so that it fits in the lead pipe of the mellophone.

Outside of a marching setting, the traditional horn configuration is ubiquitous and the mellophone configuration almost unknown.

"I like the challenge, all the new hard parts and trying to get everything perfect," said Arimaris Cano, a lanky mellophone player.

Bishop learned piano, trumpet, and tuba when young, and also played flugelhorn and mellophone.

The marching mellophone.

The bore is generally cylindrical as opposed to the more conical horn; thus, the "feel" of the mellophone can be foreign to a horn player.

The mellophone section is three valve, as well as most of the soprano line, with a few two valve sopranos in the mix.

Additionally, the Colts began transitioning to three valve bugles, with the mellophone section receiving the corps first brand new horns since 1977.

The mellophone or mellophonium was introduced soon after, and was quickly popular for its capability of soaring above the rest of the bugle section.

Mellophone (Horn in F)

He played the violin, saxophone, the cornet, the mellophone and the banjo and he mastered them all.

Manufacturing of this instrument sharply decreased in the middle of the twentieth century, and this mellophone (or mellophonium) rarely appears today.

Yvonne Allen (Mellophone)

Dorothea Brown (Mellophone)

His father played the mellophone, and his mother played the piano; in fact, she gave Basie his first piano lessons.

Sometimes, a derivative of the F alto horn, commonly used in brass bands and marching bands, called a mellophone is used.