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...
Thoughts on Playing on Piston Valves, a King Mellophone, and the...
As I have been preparing for my session at the IHS symposium that involves performing on a vintage piston valve horn, I have been...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Review: The Versus M1T mellophone mouthpiece. The one everyone has been...
A new product on the market, and a game changer, is the Versus M1T mellophone mouthpiece.
Mellophone is, sadly, a hugely polarizing topic of the...
In Praise of the Olds F Alto
Annually our church has a retreat over Memorial Day weekend up at a camp in the mountains near Prescott. Most years I have brought...
Mailbag: How to hold a Concert Mellophone
Getting back to the mailbag, a question came in a while ago on how to hold a traditional, concert mellophone.
The short answer is I...