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Author: C2thew
Date: 2008-07-06 22:25
Actually this is just a question about the graphics on the cover of the book. I understand that the picture portrays a clarinet with an auxillary Eb key, C#/G# touch piece, but what is the key the is under the 1st RH trill key? it seems to depress at the same time. i'll try and find a picture, but can someone point out what mechanism it is and what it does?
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2008-07-07 17:16
thanks Ken, that answered my question
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: John25
Date: 2008-07-07 20:43
I am not sure that the question has been answered by your post, Ken, if you will excuse me. The extra touchpiece for C#/G# is clearly visible and ends very near to the ring for the first finger RH. I thought the question concerned the fifth side trill-key - the funny-shaped thing which seems to go from the side trill keys to the lower joint. This shown on page 157 of the book, and is Mazzeo's rather unusually-shaped re-designed Eb/Bb key. As he inserted an extra trill-key for B natural, there are now five side-keys instead of four.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2008-07-07 21:51
John25 -
The fifth trill key is shown in more detail at http://www.usd.edu/smm/Mazzeo5831.html. It looks like the new elongated key opens the Eb/Bb hole. I think the part that extends to the lower joint is a brace to keep the key from opening too far. The extra trill key opens an additional hole just below the top trill key hole. I don't know its function, but perhaps it gives a better Bb/B trill or improves the Bb/C trill.
I have my doubts about how the instrument would play. I once tried a Full Mazzeo instrument, which was too heavy to hold, and the additional hardware would make it even worse. On his convention display, Steve Fox usually has a clarinet with numerous extra keys, which he says is unplayable due to the extra holes. I've heard a quarter-tone clarinet (with twice the usual number of holes), which made Acker Bilk sound like Marcellus.
Ken Shaw
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Author: S. Friedland
Date: 2008-07-08 07:45
Rosario had asked me to demonstrate his clarinet at a sumer meeting of CASS, (Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain in perhaps 89, held in London. The CC clarinet was absolutely beautiful to play, quite easy to hold and frankly I had hoped he might part with it someday in my general direction( which ws not to be the case). What shocked me was it was a Buffet!, and a great one.
The full boehm Mazzeo clarinet was my playing instrument for about 30 years. It was never too heavy to hold. I played all of the "stuff"using it, Prokoviev and Rimsky and the like and once played the Pines using the Bb instead of the A and enjoyed finishing the solo with that low Eb. The articulated middle b to c# and the articulated g#m the covered thumb and his Bb made the solo the same on either clarinet.(All as Principal Clarinet in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra) In tribute to Rosie, I must say the horn was great and I don't remeember any adjustment problems . The only thing I removed were the left hand low eb/bb keys which were a bit cumbersome.
Sherman Friedland
Post Edited (2008-07-08 07:48)
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