Re: "Mellophone" or "Mellophonium"?

Zephyr (Ralph O) wrote: 
I forgot to answer your question
Yes Kenton did design his mellophonium in 1960

It was a hacksaw job on an Indiana Marching Band Mellophone - He later
brought it to Conn and they made the mellophoniums used by the "hell
raisers" in his orchestra

The details are on the website I listed
http://home.comcast.net/%7Enoel_wedder/wsb/kentonindex2.html

The bell-backwards mellophones were designed for the Sousa band, and in fairly common use in school and community bands until the 1950s.

Jazzer Don Elliot had a strangely-contorted version built, well before Kenton "invented" his.

But the Guy Lombardo Orchestra had a bellfront version even before that, his brother Carmen played it on Dixieland numbers!
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