Klarinet Archive - Posting 000615.txt from 2000/02

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Signature and series 10
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:10:32 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chi chan [mailto:lokshing@-----.com]
>
> Dear Fernando,
>
> Anyway, we
> all know that The middle B flat note of series 10 are sounds
> thinner, so as to many other kinds of clarinet, is the B flat
> note sounds better in the new Signature?

I didn't know that at all. Must have missed the news.

> When I was in college
> (48 years ago) I know a guy who had a
> clarinet which I forgot the brand of it, its B flat note sounds
> much better. He told me the clarinet was especially built for
> that note, there is a particular name of that system,
> unfortunately I do not recall the name.

Maybe the Mazzeo system, which was marketed by Selmer exclusively. But it
wasn't built just for the sound of the Bb. It was developed by Mazzeo to
make playing over the break smoother both aurally and mechanically. The Bb
hole it uses (actually the right-hand side Bb key) exists on all clarinets,
but the key is less easily accessed on non-Mazzeo instruments. Mazzeo linked
the side Bb hole to the rings under the right hand so Bb could be played by
opening the A key and putting down your right hand fingers.

Karl Krelove

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