The mellophone is a brass instrument used in some marching bands in place of French horns. It is a middle-voiced instrument, typically pitched in the key of F, though models in Eā, D, C, and G have al
A U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps mellophone bugle player
The type of Mellophonium used by Stan Kenton's orchestra, which variously used mellophone mouthpieces and a specially designed horn-trumpet hybrid mouthpiece for Stan Kenton's band.
A Vincent Bach Mercedes F Marching Mellophone
The tuba is a large brass instrument in the bass-to-contrabass range. It is a member of the valved bugles, a large and diverse family of instruments characterized by their wide conical bore and use of
A bass tuba in F with front-action piston valves
Chink Martin (far left) on sousaphone in Johnny Bayersdorffer's Novelty Orchestra, New Orleans, 1922
The jazz recordings on Birth of the Cool (1957) by Miles Davis are some of the first to use tuba, recorded 1949ā50
Euroband musicians with fiberglass sousaphones