Klarinet Archive - Posting 000236.txt from 2006/04

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: more Mazzeo
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:05:14 -0400

Margaret,

I thought that was you! I think the last time I saw you was after a recital you did at Stanford in 1974?

I taught clarinet and sax at UCSC from 1974-76.

What part of the country are you in now?

"You don't always have the time to get to this key."

I don't have any trouble with that key at all in fast passages---BUT---I don't use my 2nd knuckle to play it----I use the one up at my palm and keep my fingers over the ring keys at all times so it is absolutely natural and very fast----I also move my thumb rest quite a bit higher on the back of the clarinet and use Bay thumb rests on all of my clarinets. The motion that I make is so minimal that I have no delay problems.

The tone is SO MUCH better that way! But then again, that IS my work---bringing out maximum tone in instruments, woodwinds and brasses, so I have a fixation on that.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: Margaret Thornhill <clarinetstudio@-----.net>
>Sent: Apr 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--
>
>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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