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Mellophones – French Horn or Mello Mouthpiece?

publication date: May 15, 2009
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French Horn MouthpieceObviously, the French horn is extremely difficult to play while moving so most marching bands will use the marching French horn, mellophone, or the alto horn as the marching equivalent to the horn.  Which one you should choose is itself an entirely separate story so I will focus on the mellophone here since that is what most Drum Corps have been converting over to as of late.  The biggest challenge is what to do about the mouthpiece.  If you are lucky enough to have spare trumpet players that will be converting to mellophone for the marching season this is less of a problem but if you are like most bands (and myself included back in the day) you will have several horn players playing this instrument during the marching season while still trying to develop as a horn player during concert band.  So do you use a standard mellophone mouthpiece, alto horn mouthpiece, or go with the horn mouthpiece with an adaptor to fit the leadpipe?  There is a huge variety of opinion on this just as a disclaimer and there are pros and cons to each choice.


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