Klarinet Archive - Posting 000220.txt from 2006/04

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: more Mazzeo
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:46:09 -0400

Kurt, let me have a shot at the question for which you got an
excellent answer from Margeret, but I want to raise the level of
the question to the abstract.

Mazzeo spoke of the traditional Boehm clarinet as one require a
hand motion that rocked back and forth. Think of the hands in
second space A and next on the third line B-natural. Go back and
forth to get the sense of your hands rocking.

Mazzeo's system, on the other hand, made the hand motion of the
clarinet all up and down fingers, eliminating much of the rocking
motion that inhibits fast execution over the break.

Use of the third side key for the B-flat as you suggest just
compounds the rocking problem, forcing the right hand into an
awkward and highly idiosychratic movement. It's a great B-flat
as you say, but not when you are running around on the
instrument.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Thornhill [mailto:clarinetstudio@-----.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:15 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Re: more Mazzeo

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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