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Alternative Keywork

Alternative Keywork Name Makers who Used / Years Pics / Notes
  Buffet Elite

(pics taken from German eBay)

Special keywork.  Notice the "open" hole just above the bell.

And the extra keywork from the top of the register key going all the way down the lower joint

If you look closely there an open hole on the left as a vent

Take a close look at the register key, the pad cup.  It activates a long actuating arm which has it's own bridge and continues to the lower part of the lower joint.

You can see the rod keywork alongside the bottom of the lower joint.  It ends and the padcup goes along the backside.

Mazzeo Selmer / mid 1960s

Each model, Selmer Paris, Signet and Bundy had slightly different features.

 

Selmer Mazzeo Clarinet Article
Mazzeo Brochure #1
Mazzeo Brochure #2

Mazzeo Mechanisms
The Mazzeo mechanism on the Signet allows the player to switch between "Mazzeo" mode and regular Boehm.  The first picture has a Bundy Mazzeo (on the bottom) and a Signet Mazzeo (on the top)




The Signet mechanism (left) shows it in the Mazzeo position.  It has a knurled end "plunger" mechanism to turn the Mazzeo system on/off.  To disconnect you simply push the mechanism in.  To reconnect you pull it out.

Mazzeo information, brochures and pictures provided by S. Page, UK

 
McIntyre Upper joint only from eBay

Stubbins Selmer

(this series 9 has a band on the top joint)

from eBay

van Perck

 

pics courtesy of Chris, UK (the guy borrowing my FB Leblanc LL)

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Pupeschi

 

pics courtesy of Chris, UK

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Articulated C#/G#  keywork Time Frame:  Current (optional on some instruments) going back to the early 1900s

Clarinet Maker: Available on most professional instruments such as Selmer, Leblanc, Buffet

 
Full Boehm keywork Time Frame:  Current (optional on some instruments) going back to the early 1900s

Clarinet Maker : Available on many professional instruments such as Selmer, Leblanc and Buffet

Example: A-series Selmer Series 9, Leblanc LL, Buffet, R-Series Selmer CT, W-series Selmer Series 9

Shows the differences between the Articulated C#/G# keywork of the various makers.

Selmer Recital Series  

Keywork Modifications

Eaton International Here is some excellent work from Chris Peryagh from the UK as he adds a Ab/Eb key to an Eaton International.  This work does not modify any posts or anything and the original lever can be reinstalled to eliminate this modification and keep the instrument close to original.  SN398

  ok, an oboe, but great keywork modification

    Other Links to other things clarinets

Clarinets with Five Keys at the National Music Museum

Clarinets with 6 Keys

Graves & Company Instruments

Mazzeo System

McIntyre System

Georg Ottensteiner Clarinets

Haynes Thermo Clarinets


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