Mellophone
C5 on the Mellophone
Written C5 — sounds concert F4. Tap the diagram to hear it.
Plays the real sound: written C5 sounds concert F4 on mellophone.
C5 is an open note on the 4th partial: no valves down, so the lip alone picks the slot. It sounds concert F4. With no valves down the tuning is honest, which makes it a useful note to tune against. This middle slot is where the mellophone sounds most like a horn: center it and match that tone above and below.
About this note
C5 is an open note on the 4th partial: no valves down, so the lip alone picks the slot. It sounds concert F4. With no valves down the tuning is honest, which makes it a useful note to tune against. This middle slot is where the mellophone sounds most like a horn: center it and match that tone above and below.
- Primary fingering: Open (no valves)
- Written pitch: C5 · Concert pitch: F4
- Sounding frequency: 349.23 Hz
- Harmonic partial: 4 — the valves set the tube length, but your air and embouchure select the partial.
Alternate fingerings for C5
- 2-3: Valves 2 + 3. A 5th-partial fingering for the same pitch, useful where an open note would break a slur.
Mellophone fingering data last updated . Every diagram here, in the printable PDF and in the chart image comes from one dataset, so the paper and the screen cannot disagree.