Klarinet Archive - Posting 000202.txt from 2006/04

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Mazzeo systems once more
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:27:55 -0400

My Mazzeo system basset horn had a clutch on it which allowed me
to turn off the Mazzeo B-flat and treat the instrument like a
standard Boehm. It broke my heart that I could not use the
Mazzeo B-flat because it was a far better note than the throat
tone B-flat. The fact is that I was too lazy to learn it, not any
inadequacies of the invention.

If memory serves me correctly, there was a much more advanced
version of the Mazzeo system clarinet. A buddy I had in the army
had studied with Mazzeo and had a pair of them. His name was Tom
Ferrante. He was a jazz tenor player as well as an excellent
legitimate clarinetist. When we went to NY to take lessons, Dave
Weber always called his instrument "a repairman's nightmare." I
don't know what it cost or what it did, but it scared me half to
death.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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