Klarinet Archive - Posting 000580.txt from 2004/01

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] mouthpiece facing question
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:01:37 -0500

After looking at the photos Sue sent me, plus going to ebay and looking
at the photos there, I do think this IS indeed an old Buffet. The wrap
around Bb/register key, by itself, dates the instrument to fairly early
in the 20th Century. The jump key key guard is also an old Buffet style.

I noticed one other mechanism in this instrument from the ebay photos.
It has an articulated E/F#-B/C#. This mechanism allows the player to go
back and forth between lowest E and F# or B to C# at the bottom of the
second register and keep the F# key piece depressed. When the E/B key
or lever is closed down that key action also closes the F# pad cup.
This mechanism is also one that Mr. Mazzeo talked about with me many
years ago when we had a long phone conversation.

I strongly suspect that this might have been a prototype that Mr.
Mazzeo had done on the Buffet. Some of the Mazzeo key pieces seem to be
custom made and don't have the same key cup style or sculpting.

Norm Benner did a lot of this work for Rosie in California. It's all in
the book Mr. Mazzeo had published.

Richard Bush

.On Saturday, January 17, 2004, at 08:35 PM, Sue Raycraft wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> It looks like this is an old Buffet, but with a Selmer Mazzeo bell.
>
> The serial number is X102.
>
> In case anyone is interested, here it is.....
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/
> eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10182&item=2371364839
>
> Sue
>
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