Klarinet Archive - Posting 000959.txt from 2000/12

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mazzeo Clarinet
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:40:09 -0500

There were a couple of other differences as well. I believe that there was a
plateau key for the L.H. thumb rather than a ring. The bell looked like an
upside down cone with no flare at the end and no ring.

Ed

>
> Terry, that's all you may find. The "Mazzeo" system simply involved the
> addition of a linkage between the right hand rings and the side Bb key so
> you could produce a better sounding throat Bb while going over the register
> break more smoothly. You played throat Bb by pressing the right hand rings
> along with the open A key (no thumb needed). It was incorporated into a line
> of (Selmer) Bundy clarinets, I guess on the theory that students would find
> an immediate benefit and the system would grow up with the players. I don't
> know if it got onto any regular pro Selmers (maybe some special orders) -
> the already established players had learned the more traditional solutions
> to both problems Mazzeo was addressing and, for the most part, didn't feel
> much need to change. So those Bundys (Bundies?) were probably the only
> production line instruments made with the Mazzeo keywork.
>
> I was a student at the time Mazzeo's system first appeared. Maybe someone
> with a better memory can fill in more or correct me if I've got it wrong.
>
> Karl Krelove
>

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