Klarinet Archive - Posting 000191.txt from 2006/04

From: "George Huba" <ghuba@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] info on "McIntire" clarinet
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:37:07 -0400

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From: dnleeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:34 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] info on "McIntire" clarinet

The problem that Ed Lacy describes about switching from one
instrument to another is what sunk the Mazzeo system. I always
thought that the idea was brilliant, but it was difficult for
some people (including myself) to master the fingering of the
instrument. I once mentioned this to Mazzeo and he got mad as
hell at me for speaking about it.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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... so then Selmer realized that they had to put a "clutch" on the
professional level Selmer Paris Mazzeo clarinets [as well as some American
Signets] in order to disable the mechanism thus allowing one to purchase a
Selmer Series 9* or Series 10 or Signet with a Mazzeo mechanism that could
then be disabled as if the mechanism were not there.

[One can just imagine the discussion in the Marketing Department over that
decision.]

George

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