Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 2011/07

From: hns692@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] The Mazzeo system
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:52:35 -0400


What is frustrating about a good thing is how often it's misunderstood and never becomes common usage, but should. What would it take to have manufacturers just make the clutch addition and include simple use instructions?

Lee Ann Hansen

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: Klarinet <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Tue, Jul 12, 2011 1:10 pm
Subject: [kl] The Mazzeo system

I owned Mazzeo's basset horn which he sold to me after his retirement from the
SO.
Not knowing how to play an instrument with the Mazzeo mechanism, he pointed out
o me that there was a clutch, which, when in put in place with a simple
ovement, changed the Mazzeo system to a traditional clarinet system. And when
he clutch was not in place, the instrument was a Mazzeo system clarinet.
I rarely used the Mazzeo system because I was unused to it, but on occasion, I
id and the idea was brilliant, to say nothing of the fact that the throat tone
-flat was magnificent. In the non Mazzeo system, the throat tone B-flat was not
ery good, but that may have been due to the basset horn manufacture.
Rosario was very protective of the advantage of the Mazzeo mechanism. I once
oolishly made a very minor negative comment about it, and Rosario became very
ngry at me. It almost broke up our 30 year friendship.
Dan Leeson
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