screamingmorris

Does a Kanstul mellophone require some kind of special mellophone mouthpiece?
Or would a Bach cornet shank or a Bach flugelhorn shank work on a Kanstul mellophone?

Other than it is in the Key of F, is there any significant difference between playing mellophone and playing flugelhorn?

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omelet

The mellophones i've seen have trumpet recievers.

Some people use mellophone mouthpieces and some (horn players) use their french horn mouthpiece with an adapter.

flugelhorn is more like trumpet in terms of how it plays
mellophone is more like french horn with easier partials/more difficult accuracy, easy to overblow

flugelhorn - several uses
mellophone - primarily marching brass

Pedal C

There is such a thing as a mellophone mouthpiece...it's like a really wide, really deep trumpet mouthpiece. It changes the sound of the mellophone quite a bit compared to a trumpet mouthpiece, but for me it made the mello harder to play and it was very uncomfortable.

As far as I know, most marching mellophones use a trumpet sized shank.

I used to love to play mellophone in the basketball band in high school (with a trumpet mpc)...up an octave or two of course!

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JustinSmith

When i was in Drum & Bugle Corps , back in highschool, I played mellophone for one summer. We had the Kanstul bugles. Our entire section of mellophones and altos used the kanstul mellophone mouthpiece. They had a short trumpet shank, but the mouthpiece was more similar to to a deep flugelhorn mouthpiece . You can probably pick one up for $20 or so from Kanstul. A trumpet mouthpiece will work fine though.

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