From the Mailbag: Trumpet to Mellophone–an Easy Switch
I was recently contacted by a parent who had a child that had been asked to switch from trumpet to mellophone for marching band....
Podcast on the B-flat Marching French Horn
While I have post some info about this topic in Horn Articles Online, one topic I have not yet posted on in this site specifically is...
The Mellophone Intonation Smackdown
I am on episode 40 of The Mellocast, the weekly podcast on all things mellophone. This episode is one of their best, on the...
Brief Review: The Jupiter Hybrid Horn/Mellophone Mouthpiece
Back a few years ago I wrote (at some professional risk) a number of items on the mellophone, including a method for mellophone now...
A blast from the past, a brief look at the G...
An element of the mellophone puzzle, and understanding where we are today with the modern marching mello, is the G mellophone bugle.
For those that...
Summer is Heating up and the Mellophones are Coming Out
This was the first post (2007) in what became a mellophone series of articles, which led me toward writing A Mello Catechism. Check out...
First impressions with the Patterson mellophone leadpipe – Mark Taylor
This leadpipe (made by our sponsor Patterson HornWorks) and its angled-bend is something that I have been very curious about.
Thanks to mello-head Mark Taylor,...
An Advocate for the Alto Horn in 1968
In 1990 a wonderful brass resource was published, Brass Bibliography: Sources on the History, Literature, Pedagogy, Performance, and Acoustics of Brass Instruments by Mark...
Vintage Brass Instrument: The Solo Alto
I have long been interested in horn history. My original website is well known for its horn history resources and I am sure has...
On the Classic or Concert Mellophone
Recently I was asked by a colleague, Jill Sullivan, to identify the backwards horns in some of the band photographs she had come across...