the most awesome instrument in marching band. in concert band, the mellophone players are french horn players, which epically pwn anyway, so when they change to mellophone, its just as awesome. people may make fun of them, but its just cause they're jealous.

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the single most amazing instrument in a marching band, ever. it is usually played by those of higher intelligence and awesomeness, aka concert F Horn players. ALWAYS louder than the trumpets. no exceptions.

The greatest of the forgotten instruments in band. Mellophones are the marching version of a French horn, because french horns don't project properly to be used for marching. Many schools nowadays don't have them however, since EWHS is the best, we do. They're played in corps and often the people that play them are pretty timid, unlike their similar looking trumpets. Mellophones are the best!!!

A mellophone is what french horn players march and play in marching band. It's like a trumpet with a horn bell. Trumpet players call it a trumpet on steroids. But really, a trumpet is an anorexic mellophone.

A fairly large frontal facing insturment which some people call a marching French Horn.

I like to define it as follows.

Mellophone, Noun - A trumpet(not capitalized) with a bigger penis. Used by those who either play Horn in symphony or have realized in all of their infinite wisdom that trumpets suck at life.

Best instrument ever. It is perfectly balanced between the upper ranges and lower ranges. The best of both worlds. Woman mellophone lines in the last ten years in drum corps rings have notorious scored higher than those made only of men. Mellophone, in the key of F, may sound flat, but it is actually the tone quality (ok, the instrument itself is impossible to play not flat, everyone else tune down). Mellophone's always play the meanest licks and the greatest dynamics.