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Re: Mazzeo Bell Prototypes???

Author: ghuba
Date: 2007-06-25 17:28

A little more detective work on production Selmer Paris Mazzeo clarinet bells ...

I looked at the bells from two Series 9* Mazzeo clarinets and compared them to the bells on three Series 10 Mazzeo clarinets.

The findings ...

Chris P is correct, the bells on the 9* Mazzeos are trivially less flared. They are also slightly heavier than the Series 10 bells. The walls of the bells on the Series 10 Mazzeo bells are thinner.

Series 9* Mazzeo bells are unmarked. The Series 10 bells are all marked "10" or Series 10, although all three bells I have are marked differently.

Comparing the full Boehm Series 10 bell to two Series 10 "regular" Boehm clarinets indicates that the bells are identical; full Boehm bells are not different from those used on regular Boehm Mazzeos. The same is true comparisng one Series 9* regular Boehm Mazzeo bell to a Series 9* full Boehm bell.

I conclude the following.

a) Either Mazzeo or Selmer or both continued to evolve the Mazzeo system bells over time.
b) Selmer did not use different bells on full Boehm models. Whether Mazzeo worked on these (as Sherman Friedland suggests) or not, apparently Selmer did not ship special ones for full Boehm instruments, at least on the instruments I own.

George

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