NMM 5832. Clarinet in A by Henri Selmer, Paris, 1961. Rosario Mazzeo Collection, 1995.

Four sections.  Stamped on top joint:  MAZZEO / SYSTEM / DEPOSE / HENRI / SELMER / PARIS (in wreath with HENRI / SELMER) / FRANCE / [star] / U. S. PATENT 2,867,143 (on back); on barrel:  HENRI / SELMER / PARIS (all in wreath) / A / MADE IN FRANCE (lower) / 2 mm.L (on back); on bottom joint:  HENRI / SELMER / PARIS (all in wreath); on bell:  MAZZEO / SYSTEM / HENRI / SELMER / PARIS (in wreath with HENRI / SELMER); on bell back: MADE IN FRANCE. Number S4783.  Grenadilla, German-silver ferrules.  Twenty German-silver keys, five German-silver rings, one German-silver plateau key.  Modified Mazzeo system with custom modifications designed by Mazzeo ca. 1968.  Modifications include:  elongated left hand g-sharp' key; German silver plate attached to left hand thumb plateau key; c-sharp'/g-sharp'' key extension that is operated with right hand; left hand "Bis" key.  Rosario Mazzeo's U.S. patent #2,867,146 (1959).  Length (top of barrel to bottom of bell), 640 mm.  Part of a set with NMM 5831. 

Lit.:   Deborah Check Reeves, "The Mazzeo System Clarinet:  An Historical Review," The Clarinet 26, No. 2 (March 1999), pp. 62-64.

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