Klarinet Archive - Posting 000215.txt from 2006/04

From: Margaret Thornhill <clarinetstudio@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: more Mazzeo
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:18:05 -0400

Kurt Heisig wrote:
>
> Why not use the a key and the 3rd side key up on right hand as Brymer recommends---been using it for decades and it is quite easy with a great sound.
>
Kurt--
You don't always have the time to get to this key.
The Mazzeo invention used this hole with a fingering that is easy in
fast passage work and conducive to a smooth legato so you can use it in
almost any situation. Bet you don't use your side key for a normal flat
key scale in 16ths.
> Margaret,
>
> Are you the one that taught at UCSC between Mazzeo and myself? Say about 1973?
>
> Kurt
>
Yes, and although I know you, I didn't know that you had taught there.

Regards,
Margaret

>
>> The curious may want to know that the Mazzeo really is just a Boehm
>> clarinet with only one (no matter what Mazzeo claimed) note fingered
>> differently--the throat B-flat--which is normally fingered with the
>> throat A key plus the rings of the right hand (and yes, it is/was a
>> brilliant innovation.)
>>
>
>

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