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The F mellophone has tubing half the length of a French horn, which gives it an overtone series more similar to a trumpet and most other brass instruments. The mellophone is an instrument designed specifically to bring the approximate sound of a horn in a package which is conducive to playing while marching.
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The drum and bugle corps activity has been a driving force of innovation behind the creation of marching brass instruments for many decades. The mellophone and the contrabass bugle are among the creations spawned by instrument manufacturers for use in the marching activity due to the influence of drum and bugle corps hornlines.
E ♭ cornet, also known as a soprano cornet; Tenor horn, known as an Alto Horn in the US; Tuba in E-flat (written at concert pitch when using the bass clef, only transposing when written in treble clef) Circular altohorn (Koenig horn) pitched in E ♭ Tenor cornet; Mellophone; Alto trombone; Vocal horn (cornet with an upward-facing bell)
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The cornett was at the height of its popularity between 1550 and 1650. [12] The instrument had declined by the 18th century. [11] When the instrument was needed in the 19th century, it had gone extinct. [11] Efforts to re-create it were not immediately successful and other instruments have been used in an attempt to replace it in classical ...
The cornet (/ ˈ k ɔːr n ɪ t /, [1] US: / k ɔːr ˈ n ɛ t /) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B ♭. There is also a soprano cornet in E ♭ and cornets in A and C.
Two instruments are called a mellophone. The first is an instrument shaped somewhat like a horn, in that it is formed in a circle. It has piston valves and is played with the right hand on the valves. Manufacturing of this instrument sharply decreased in the middle of the twentieth century, and this mellophone (or mellophonium) rarely appears ...