Japanese crossword «Mellophone»

I had no idea that's what it was called. Picture the mouthpiece to the left.

Boring

Well, mellophone is definitely not a word I will use in my future English conversations :)

Mellophone? Thats the one before the first sellphone ever.

My first nonogram

That is not a good picture

Pretty good. For the rest in the comments, Mellophone is in the trumpet family, in the key of Eb. Larger than trumpet

Looks like a trumpet.

Mellophone looks great!

This is your first and only black and white so far, Taylor. Keep them coming! You're doing great!

Hopefully not your last, David. Nonograms are awesome!

My only issue with the subject is that mellophones are even more twisty and turny than a trumpet. It's like a merge of a trumpet and a french horn. As such I think trying to portray one is so tiny a puzzle is not ideal subject matter because you can't come close to a genuine representation.

Enjoyable

Nice.

Quick solve.

It looks like a trumpet

Future band teacher here! A mellophone is a marching French Horn, which is a fun round instrument that you stick your hand in the bell at the end. The bell is the part where the sound comes out, like on this nonogram, the bit to the right. A trumpet would have a small bell. Mellophones have large ones! You can imagine that it wouldn't be very easy to march around a field with your hand in the instrument, so they made a less round version that sounds the same, but it played like a trumpet!