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Articles with a focus on the mellophone and middle brass

Videos from BlackJack Mouthpieces, and the Ultimate Mellophone Mouthpiece

One great series of videos on YouTube are Trumpet Tips from Jeffrey Curnow, Associate Principal Trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra. A good introduction generally...

Introducing the Mellophonium

One thing that was interesting after my surprise performance of Misty on the Mellophonium at the banquet at the IHS symposium (also described in...

The Alto Horn — The Ultimate Off Beat Playing Machine

Last week I subbed twice in a brass band on E-flat tenor (alto) horn, for a project underway with the ASU bands. I have...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...