The last time I played a mellophone was when I was in high school (1960). Then, the instrument resembled a french horn with pistons. Personally, its tone was not mellow and I went on to play the french horn, baritone horn and trombone. Later I noticed that two instrument were modified to play in the band: the marching melophone which you have and the flugelbone which resembled a base trumpet and sound like stuffy trombone. The marching melophone was just straightening out the classical one so this is why the flare of the bell is so large. I recall that the mouth piece was half way between the size of a trumpet and a trombone. I really love to watch your presentations of instruments I knew about but never heard them played. I would like to hear the difference between a soprano trombone and a slide trumpet. Bach made them both and the trombone cost more. Are they different in bore.
The first time I ever saw a march-mello, I thought it was some kind of ultra flugelhorn (at the time I played a true marching French horn, and noticed off the bat this wasn’t what I played). I respect mello a bit better than I used to, but I’m still in the B-flat marching French horn camp.
at 1:49 when you play the concert F scale on both instrument, I notice that the fingering on the mellophone appear be be that it is an instrument in F...do I have something messing my mind, or did you mistaken that it is a Eb instrument..?
Aw, the enduring charms was quite sweet on the mellowphone. I could hear it at twilight of a late summer day from a small country bandstand. Some notes are like static, you just need to listen around them.
Hi trent as you probably know ghe mellophone is used in marching bands as a replacement for french horn, is it the same tubing length or an octave higher?
Clear demonstration !! Thomann sells a marching horn MHR-302 L in Bb which is so an octave lower than a flugelhorn. We lack French horns in our amateur symphonic orchestra and I wonder if the sound would be close enough to that of a French horn but there are no reviews of it on CZcams.
The bell shape stops mattering long before the mellophone bell finishes its curve. The mellophone bell was desigined for appearance, not for sound. It was supposed to make you think of a french horn straightened out.
In DcUk bands the two are very closely paired together, sometime in arrangements one would take the lead over the other. The Mellowphone really projects across the field where the Flugelhorn not so much
lol try to find and review a king 1122 marching french horn, thing plays like the worlds warmest mellophone, and easiest to play french horn, but they're a bit jarring to hold
I wonder what a flugelhorn with a mellophone bell branch and flare would sound like? I wonder if somebody may have built a "franken-horn" already and answered either here, or somewhere else?
Part of that difference is due to the bell taper and a greater bell surface area on the mellophone...more of the sound will naturally be reflected back to the musician, and the faster taper of the Flugelhorn will eliminate more of the overtones.
But did anybody catch the tune he is playing at 3:12? That tune was in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon, where the piano was rigged to explode when he (Bugs Bunny) hits the last note of this tune(of course it never did on him but on the other guy); soon as I recognized him playing it, i was waiting for the 💥 on that last note!😆
To get a true comparison between them you gotta really wail on them, open them up full throttle and let's hear forte fortissimo. Imagine you're standing on the 50 yard line of the biggest game of the season and the stadium is packed with 100,000 screaming fans. The band better be able to pop the buttons off their shirts and part their hair a different way
I’ve played both, and prefer the flugelhorn (yeah , I know, that’s blasphemy; sue me. 🤣🤣🤣). The Blue Devils replaced their mellos with flugels a couple of times (as well as their french horns), and also used a hybrid “frankenhorn” called a “Meehaphone,” named after their brass caption head (I think). It looked sort of like a big flugelhorn (there are pictures on the interwebs).
@@mambojazz1 there is a difference...mello is constructed differently than horn and uses its own specialized mouthpiece, while a B-flat marching French horn natively uses a French horn mouthpiece. I own a B-flat marching horn, and have played both. Mello became popular because it is far easier to play than horn.
So!...what if...you stick the mellophone mouthpiece in the flugelhorn? I use one (Mellophone M3) in my cornet and it reduces the 'brightness' which decreases the hissiness of the cornet.
There's a three different shapes the mellophones Conor's in, and each has a different sound compared to one another. The one in the video has a more trumpet like sound; where are there's one that's shaped more like a coronet and a flugelhorn and is less trumpet like, and then there's one with a shape somewhat similar to a flugelhorn (this is the biggest of the three) and has a more horn like sound. Then the bell size and how it flares off also contributes to it. A more gradual flat, similar to that of a horn (in F) will sound more horn like than the ones that flare off like a trumpet. Mellophones are a really interesting breed. Our school had one that has a shape like the one you have, and it actually sounds nothing like a mellophone should. 1. The entire thing itself is bent and lopsided It sounds like a damaged trumpet. I think it was dropped from the bleachers and landed on its bell years ago.
+Garen Crownguard There are many aspects that go into the type of sound that an instrument makes. If a trumpet had a bell this large, they would lose their characteristic edge, but perhaps gain more fullness, and a whole host of intonation problems, I imagine.
Over haul it, clean it, well, see how it behaves . Olds used good metals , no reason to fear metal fatigue , Red brass rot etc. I would be tempted to play treble clef trumpet/cornet music and see how it blends/ harmonizes with. the other horns parts. Taint Skeerd of new sounds . Glad to see you up and about.
WHAT ABOUT PLEASE A COMPARISON BETWEEN A MELOPHONE IN E-FLAT AND AN ALTO/TENOR HORN IN E-FLAT OR SOLO HORN IN E-FLAT? AS ALL THE PREVIOUS ARE IN E-FLAT.
If you took them both outdoors and had the microphone 100 yards away, you'd soon capture the true intent of the mellophone. Flugels are better indoors and more of a soloist instrument, mellophones are better in a line of about 12 of them playing FFF and pushing the bleachers back 10 feet.
Red Frosty No believe me they are like Bb french horns except with piston valves and the bell faces the front. It's shaped like a mellophone, but the mouthpiece receiver thing is too small to accept a mello mouthpiece. I know Hebron HS used them, and know no other examples but i do know that they exist
OH, if you would have said horn in bflat i would have understood boi, we played a calico toon with a b flat horn part. i havnt seen one though but i just learned something new, thanks dude
One key question Why most bands who had a brass section ( kc and sunshine, miami sound machine, the oc supertones, buck, the insyders ) never included these two instruments. Also i cant think of anybody who plays these instruments and is famous. Almost as if these two instruments are in the dark
Famous people on flugelhorn: Ack van Rooyen and Clark Terry About the horn section question: I guess you need bite and attack from horns (those would be saxes, trombones and trumpets), and big band jazz timing for most arrangements, and a flugel will not give you the bite, and I know no jazz player who owns a mellophone. Oh and there's the parts writing thing: do you write for mellophone in Eb, or in F? Mind you, the instrument started as F/Eb instrument, the Conn 16E. Can still be found on ebay
Trumpets, French horns, Flugel horns, and Mellophones are all true horns, Tenner Cons, Baritones, and Tubas are all heavy or false horns, and the trombone and sackbut are slide horns.
If you correctly shape your embouchure, switching between mouthpieces isn't as difficult. There's a maximum and minimum size that each player can successfully use without practicing for many hours on each size. Flugelhorn and mellophone mouthpieces are similarly sized.
This may be a stupid question, but when I play on the euphonium I'm slightly sharp, any tips? (I don't think this matters, but I use a Bach 12C mouthpiece, I'm fairly new.)
There are some notes that will always be slightly sharp, and others which will be flat. Not every note will be in tune. That being said, if everything is sharp or flat, then the best way to deal with it is either to have someone look at the way you produce notes, or to adjust your tuning slide.
A lot of mello players use trumpet mouthpieces (we did when I was in high school marching band), and thus have a brighter tone than they would using a mellophone mouthpiece (kinda like when somebody plays a flugel with a trumpet mouthpiece; you lose the darker mellower sound). If you listen to some of the old shows of the Blue Devils, their mellophones almost sound like sopranos, especially in the upper register.
For some reason it won't let me reply to your comment Trent, so I have another question. Would it be insanely hard or anything to switch to a flugelhorn? I read up on it and it says it has the same note range and fingerings.
Flugal horn yes, mello it will take practice... mouthpieces are different. The mellophone is ment for a more French horn sound. Imagine going from alto to tenor sax... or alto to soprano sax... a instrument in key or e flat, to b flat. It will be different but it's fine
It would be easier for a trumpet player to switch to the flugelhorn because it plays in the they of Bb and has identical fingerings, the mello (in this case) is in Eb and it's fundamentals and fingerings are slightly different and the music is read didfferently
hi how are you im from Bolivia i need help i want to know about the schiller brand you know someting please make a vídeo about the diferent brands of instruments un the market thanks (sorry for the bad english)
+Joel Ibañez Here's all you need to know about Schiller: Schiller is a brand marketed by Jim Laabs and his store Jim Laabs Music. They are made in china by a company called JinBao, and are what we often call "stencil horns". JinBao can make some great instruments, but their quality control is not very good. Different companies who buy and sell these instruments check them for quality and provide better customer service. The best resellers are Mack Brass (based in the US) and Wessex Tubas (based in the UK), then you have people like Schiller (again, based out of the US) and Sterling (based out of Australia) among others. Finally the cheapest, but riskiest option is to buy directly from the wholesalers using Aliexpress.com or Alibaba.com. Trent does have a video on these horns, look at the video about the bach stradovarius clone trumpet. I personally own a Wessex trumpet, a Sterling alto trombone, and a superbone I bought from a wholesaler and they are all very nice instruments. I can say though that the Wessex is far better than the others, and all the instruments I played when I visited their showroom were similarly good.
+Joel Ibañez if you buy say... The mack brass one, btw tom from mack brass takes customer service very seriously, you just need to give it a bath when you get it, and replace water key corks and valve felts and maybe springs (not expensive things), then you'll be good to go
they dont't make mellophones in Bb. They do however have marching french horns in Bb but in reality they're in f because they're the Bb side of a double horn that's played in F.
If they're BB They're not mellos, they are marching French horns which are somewhat smiliar in looks but actually very different. Even though Bb marching horns are in Bb (duh) they're mostly (but really always) played in F since it's the same fingerings as the Bb side of a concert horn.
The last time I played a mellophone was when I was in high school (1960). Then, the instrument resembled a french horn with pistons. Personally, its tone was not mellow and I went on to play the french horn, baritone horn and trombone. Later I noticed that two instrument were modified to play in the band: the marching melophone which you have and the flugelbone which resembled a base trumpet and sound like stuffy trombone. The marching melophone was just straightening out the classical one so this is why the flare of the bell is so large. I recall that the mouth piece was half way between the size of a trumpet and a trombone.
I really love to watch your presentations of instruments I knew about but never heard them played. I would like to hear the difference between a soprano trombone and a slide trumpet. Bach made them both and the trombone cost more. Are they different in bore.
The first time I ever saw a march-mello, I thought it was some kind of ultra flugelhorn (at the time I played a true marching French horn, and noticed off the bat this wasn’t what I played). I respect mello a bit better than I used to, but I’m still in the B-flat marching French horn camp.
What why is the mello in e flat, you should have gotten one in f ./.
Red Frosty i know its a bit late but in his description he mentions how he says its Eb in the video but its actually in F
oh lol my bad
It is in F. He made a mistake on the video, but corrected it in the description.
at 1:49 when you play the concert F scale on both instrument, I notice that the fingering on the mellophone appear be be that it is an instrument in F...do I have something messing my mind, or did you mistaken that it is a Eb instrument..?
+Freddie Lo Hi Freddie, I've just double checked, and you're right :)
+Trent Hamilton so this is a mellophone in the Key of F
Freddie Lo kmnf
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The horn he has looks exactly like the one I played when I was in 12th grade. It was the only one which hadn’t had to have the bell fixed.
Aw, the enduring charms was quite sweet on the mellowphone. I could hear it at twilight of a late summer day from a small country bandstand. Some notes are like static, you just need to listen around them.
A Mellophone is in F most of the time I played the same model and it was in F/
Conn 16E, is a F/Eb horn. From 1957 or so. Not all of them have the Eb tubing still in the case though
I kept thinking it sounded like you were playing “The First Noel” a few times at a certain spot while playing the composition.
Hi trent as you probably know ghe mellophone is used in marching bands as a replacement for french horn, is it the same tubing length or an octave higher?
Clear demonstration !!
Thomann sells a marching horn MHR-302 L in Bb which is so an octave lower than a flugelhorn. We lack French horns in our amateur symphonic orchestra and I wonder if the sound would be close enough to that of a French horn but there are no reviews of it on CZcams.
The bell shape stops mattering long before the mellophone bell finishes its curve. The mellophone bell was desigined for appearance, not for sound. It was supposed to make you think of a french horn straightened out.
Im a bit of a skeptic, sorry😅. But where did you learn this from?
In DcUk bands the two are very closely paired together, sometime in arrangements one would take the lead over the other. The Mellowphone really projects across the field where the Flugelhorn not so much
lol try to find and review a king 1122 marching french horn, thing plays like the worlds warmest mellophone, and easiest to play french horn, but they're a bit jarring to hold
Just so you know, kelly has made tenor, bass, and contrabass trombone mouthpieces. Just an idea for a future video.
I wonder what a flugelhorn with a mellophone bell branch and flare would sound like? I wonder if somebody may have built a "franken-horn" already and answered either here, or somewhere else?
Part of that difference is due to the bell taper and a greater bell surface area on the mellophone...more of the sound will naturally be reflected back to the musician, and the faster taper of the Flugelhorn will eliminate more of the overtones.
This Video is awesome
But did anybody catch the tune he is playing at 3:12? That tune was in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon, where the piano was rigged to explode when he (Bugs Bunny) hits the last note of this tune(of course it never did on him but on the other guy); soon as I recognized him playing it, i was waiting for the 💥 on that last note!😆
Yessssss wondered where I recognized it
To get a true comparison between them you gotta really wail on them, open them up full throttle and let's hear forte fortissimo. Imagine you're standing on the 50 yard line of the biggest game of the season and the stadium is packed with 100,000 screaming fans. The band better be able to pop the buttons off their shirts and part their hair a different way
you comment this like this video isn't 6 years old
@DNKG699 my comments are timeless and are just as apt now as they would have been in 6000 bc😅
I play flugelhorn and I love it so forgive me if I'm a bit biased
I’ve played both, and prefer the flugelhorn (yeah , I know, that’s blasphemy; sue me. 🤣🤣🤣). The Blue Devils replaced their mellos with flugels a couple of times (as well as their french horns), and also used a hybrid “frankenhorn” called a “Meehaphone,” named after their brass caption head (I think). It looked sort of like a big flugelhorn (there are pictures on the interwebs).
@@iplayfhornYep named after John Meehan. Basically if a flugelhorn had to fit DCI 1980’s rules.
A mellophone is basically a cornet with a French horn bell.
Have you ever/can you do a video on growling? Specifically on trombone, but in general I assume would be fine.
+Antique Sofa I've done one on multiphonics.
Mellophone sounds flat
mellophones are trash when in comes to tuning
DEGOBEATS that’s why marching French horns are better.
0:01 Mellophone is called mellphone
@@guitarmansegovia Mellophone is a marching French Horn
@@mambojazz1 there is a difference...mello is constructed differently than horn and uses its own specialized mouthpiece, while a B-flat marching French horn natively uses a French horn mouthpiece. I own a B-flat marching horn, and have played both.
Mello became popular because it is far easier to play than horn.
i thought the humming was an ac unit
TechNically speaking it is
So!...what if...you stick the mellophone mouthpiece in the flugelhorn? I use one (Mellophone M3) in my cornet and it reduces the 'brightness' which decreases the hissiness of the cornet.
There's a three different shapes the mellophones Conor's in, and each has a different sound compared to one another.
The one in the video has a more trumpet like sound; where are there's one that's shaped more like a coronet and a flugelhorn and is less trumpet like, and then there's one with a shape somewhat similar to a flugelhorn (this is the biggest of the three) and has a more horn like sound. Then the bell size and how it flares off also contributes to it. A more gradual flat, similar to that of a horn (in F) will sound more horn like than the ones that flare off like a trumpet.
Mellophones are a really interesting breed.
Our school had one that has a shape like the one you have, and it actually sounds nothing like a mellophone should. 1. The entire thing itself is bent and lopsided
It sounds like a damaged trumpet. I think it was dropped from the bleachers and landed on its bell years ago.
The mellophone sounds like a (french) horn. Hmm.
it's a french horn but it's used for marching band
it’s literally a marching french horn
Well it’s what French Horns play in marching band
@@Defnotken Umm...nice Google pic. LOL
studdies a french horn has more tubing giving it more harmonics in the same register and generally a more distant sound
I LIKE THIS GUY.
This is really good, thanks.
Blessing 5 looks like
I have a G mello, it is the one I played in Drum and Bugle Corps. I still have a few of each G horns
Joseph Goskowsky G mellos have a way different timbre though, primarily because of the long, open tube loop. They sound imo more like french horns.
Having a mellophone in e flat isn’t normal for mellos usually key of f or they have b flat ones too also with early models in the key of g
thanks a lot
Do you guys use marching baritones/contrabass bugles at all in Europe? they are both very common in the U.S.
2:41
So if larger bell = fuller sound, why are, say, trumpet bells not that large?
+Garen Crownguard There are many aspects that go into the type of sound that an instrument makes. If a trumpet had a bell this large, they would lose their characteristic edge, but perhaps gain more fullness, and a whole host of intonation problems, I imagine.
Mellophone sounds a bit more fuller. Other than that they sound very similar
(Edit) oh, he already said that. My bad 😅
what model of flugelhorn is .?
What kind of organ is in the back there?
Over haul it, clean it, well, see how it behaves . Olds used good metals , no reason to fear metal fatigue , Red brass rot etc. I would be tempted to play treble clef trumpet/cornet music and see how it blends/ harmonizes with. the other horns parts. Taint Skeerd of new sounds . Glad to see you up and about.
WHAT ABOUT PLEASE A COMPARISON BETWEEN A MELOPHONE IN E-FLAT AND AN ALTO/TENOR HORN IN E-FLAT OR SOLO HORN IN E-FLAT? AS ALL THE PREVIOUS ARE IN E-FLAT.
If you took them both outdoors and had the microphone 100 yards away, you'd soon capture the true intent of the mellophone. Flugels are better indoors and more of a soloist instrument, mellophones are better in a line of about 12 of them playing FFF and pushing the bleachers back 10 feet.
Mellphone at the beginning
most mellos are in f
It was a mistake in the description he says instead of being in Eb but in F
Did anyone notice what it said on his shirt?
Can you review a marching French horn?
That's what the mello takes the place of in a marching band
SFM 4Life No, marching french horns are like mellos, but more conical and only accept french horn mouthpieces
+EpicMeh mate.., you can slap in a French horn mouthpeice on a mello but it sounds like shit
Red Frosty No believe me they are like Bb french horns except with piston valves and the bell faces the front. It's shaped like a mellophone, but the mouthpiece receiver thing is too small to accept a mello mouthpiece. I know Hebron HS used them, and know no other examples but i do know that they exist
OH, if you would have said horn in bflat i would have understood boi, we played a calico toon with a b flat horn part. i havnt seen one though but i just learned something new, thanks dude
All i heard was bark
mellophone vs French Horn vs alto horn vs alto trombone please.
MELLOPHONE
One key question
Why most bands who had a brass section ( kc and sunshine, miami sound machine, the oc supertones, buck, the insyders ) never included these two instruments. Also i cant think of anybody who plays these instruments and is famous. Almost as if these two instruments are in the dark
Famous people on flugelhorn: Ack van Rooyen and Clark Terry
About the horn section question: I guess you need bite and attack from horns (those would be saxes, trombones and trumpets), and big band jazz timing for most arrangements, and a flugel will not give you the bite, and I know no jazz player who owns a mellophone. Oh and there's the parts writing thing: do you write for mellophone in Eb, or in F? Mind you, the instrument started as F/Eb instrument, the Conn 16E. Can still be found on ebay
Trumpets, French horns, Flugel horns, and Mellophones are all true horns, Tenner Cons, Baritones, and Tubas are all heavy or false horns, and the trombone and sackbut are slide horns.
+Socks, shoes, and hats What a load of rubbish.
+Trent Hamilton
Eh, your right... My friend told me it, so it HAS to be wrong. What's wrong with it though? I'm getting a bit curious.
Socks, shoes, and hats
There's no such category of instrument as true horns, false horns etc. that I've ever heard of.
+Trent Hamilton
Oh, okay. I'll tell him... And aren't cors more like sousaphones than Mellophones?
I can't hear the different
well before the vid starts I know the mellophone's bell is much larger and it's a melower sound
How do you switch between different mouthpiece sizes and still sound good
If you correctly shape your embouchure, switching between mouthpieces isn't as difficult. There's a maximum and minimum size that each player can successfully use without practicing for many hours on each size. Flugelhorn and mellophone mouthpieces are similarly sized.
Hello friend . Your sound is not diferent , because use the same moutpiece for the mellophone an the fuglehorn .
Do both musical instruments play on the treble clef?
Mellophone vs. F alto horn?
This may be a stupid question, but when I play on the euphonium I'm slightly sharp, any tips? (I don't think this matters, but I use a Bach 12C mouthpiece, I'm fairly new.)
+Matt I Brass instruments have a tuning slide which you can extend to flatten the instrument to get around this.
+Trent Hamilton I know about the tuning slide, but what about my embouchure
There are some notes that will always be slightly sharp, and others which will be flat. Not every note will be in tune. That being said, if everything is sharp or flat, then the best way to deal with it is either to have someone look at the way you produce notes, or to adjust your tuning slide.
Hey Trent what's your take better quality sound name flugle horns. On a budget
You uploaded this 3 am my time
What I want to know is, can you put a trumpet/flugel mouthpiece in the mello and take advantage of the lower range?
A lot of mello players use trumpet mouthpieces (we did when I was in high school marching band), and thus have a brighter tone than they would using a mellophone mouthpiece (kinda like when somebody plays a flugel with a trumpet mouthpiece; you lose the darker mellower sound). If you listen to some of the old shows of the Blue Devils, their mellophones almost sound like sopranos, especially in the upper register.
@@iplayfhorn Okay, cool, thank you so much!
Would you recommend monel, nickel plated or chrome material for piston valves and why do you answer?
hi
Play bride of waves
Almost thesame sound
For some reason it won't let me reply to your comment Trent, so I have another question. Would it be insanely hard or anything to switch to a flugelhorn? I read up on it and it says it has the same note range and fingerings.
No, it will be be pretty manageable. The range and fingering is identical; just a different sound.
Close. The Mellophone needs tuning . It’s flat
Hi Trent I just wanted to know if i go into jazz band like I plan is it worth it to rent/buy a bass trombone
+RTC Gaming Renting is a fine short-mid term solution.
Can someone send him a proper mellophone in f? Like, a Jupiter or something. Odd brand but it's the best to capture the marching band feel
Samplehorse read the description
A bit off topic, but what are you running on your servers? Lol
Could a regular bb trumpet player switch to a mellophone or flugelhorn?
Yes
SilverSociopath Fingerings are relatively similar
SilverSociopath usually (at least in America) French horn players will switch to mellophone, I'm not sure about flugelhorn because I've never seen one
Flugal horn yes, mello it will take practice... mouthpieces are different. The mellophone is ment for a more French horn sound. Imagine going from alto to tenor sax... or alto to soprano sax... a instrument in key or e flat, to b flat. It will be different but it's fine
It would be easier for a trumpet player to switch to the flugelhorn because it plays in the they of Bb and has identical fingerings, the mello (in this case) is in Eb and it's fundamentals and fingerings are slightly different and the music is read didfferently
you forgot a o in mellophone in the intro
Mellophone sounds like a trumpet and French horn had a love child...
More like spawn of the devil. :-D
hi how are you im from Bolivia i need help i want to know about the schiller brand you know someting
please make a vídeo about the diferent brands of instruments un the market
thanks (sorry for the bad english)
+Joel Ibañez Here's all you need to know about Schiller:
Schiller is a brand marketed by Jim Laabs and his store Jim Laabs Music. They are made in china by a company called JinBao, and are what we often call "stencil horns". JinBao can make some great instruments, but their quality control is not very good. Different companies who buy and sell these instruments check them for quality and provide better customer service.
The best resellers are Mack Brass (based in the US) and Wessex Tubas (based in the UK), then you have people like Schiller (again, based out of the US) and Sterling (based out of Australia) among others. Finally the cheapest, but riskiest option is to buy directly from the wholesalers using Aliexpress.com or Alibaba.com.
Trent does have a video on these horns, look at the video about the bach stradovarius clone trumpet. I personally own a Wessex trumpet, a Sterling alto trombone, and a superbone I bought from a wholesaler and they are all very nice instruments. I can say though that the Wessex is far better than the others, and all the instruments I played when I visited their showroom were similarly good.
+TheWorstThrowEver thanks really its tru are cheap instruments but look so nice hahha thanks
+Joel Ibañez if you buy say... The mack brass one, btw tom from mack brass takes customer service very seriously, you just need to give it a bath when you get it, and replace water key corks and valve felts and maybe springs (not expensive things), then you'll be good to go
the flute is sharp
Then yank it out some! (Tune it.) And BTW, what flute are you talking about?
What mouthpiece is on that mellophone?
A true mellophone mouthpiece is around the same size as a trumpet mouthpiece, but has a deeper cup, similar to that of a french horn mouthpiece.
At least you actually know not to blast the mellophone
What this scottish dude calls bells, my country calls it mouth
Mellophones are in F...?
there are different kinds of mello's normal mello's are in f sometimes in b flat, but e flat mello's are a replacement for baritones
They come in Bb and Eb, and I've even seen G, but he mentioned he meant to say key if F In the description. :)
they dont't make mellophones in Bb. They do however have marching french horns in Bb but in reality they're in f because they're the Bb side of a double horn that's played in F.
I've seen mellos in Bb
I think king made a few
If they're BB They're not mellos, they are marching French horns which are somewhat smiliar in looks but actually very different. Even though Bb marching horns are in Bb (duh) they're mostly (but really always) played in F since it's the same fingerings as the Bb side of a concert horn.
dang mellephone is way better. but then ur out of the trumpet family.
You should move back so we can see the full insturment exsepsially with trombones
That shirt thou
The way you put your fingers on the valves triggers me so much didn’t you learn to curl them ? 😂😂😂