Mellophone

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The mellophone bugle (more accurately though rarely called 'mellophonium') became familiar in the mid-1960s after its first use in Canadian drum corps. Based on an old band instrument often called the "poor man's french horn" and popularized in innovative jazz and orchestral arrangements by Stan Kenton, the Whaley Royce firm first offered them to drum and bugle corps, and soon they were made by the Huller firm in Germany under the Smith Music label, and later by Olds and others. In some corps they replaced the older french horn bugle which had a much lower dynamic (volume) level.

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