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Re: mouthpiece prices

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2016-12-20 18:51

One way I helped my students choose a mouthpiece when I was teaching at Peabody and Towson University in order to keep their costs down as well as give them a wide choice was as follows. Every time I went to NY with the BSO I'd go to Weiners, or Vandoren or some other store to try mouthpieces.. Anytime I'd find one I liked I'd buy it to stock, that's how I actually found my Morgan clarinet MP I've been using for over 20 years now. I'd also try many anytime I'd go to a clarient festival, that's where I found my McClune bass clarinet mouthpece I've been using for some time .I'd also have mouthpieces that were recommend to me shipped for me for trial, I absorbed the costs for my students. I would stock about 20 clarinet mouthpieces and about 6 bass clarinet mouthpieces for my students to try. ( I'd deduct the cost as a legitimate expense ). When a student and I would agree that they should look for a change I'd give them several at a time to take home and try until they found what they liked the best, often there would be more than one, so we would work together deciding which was the best for them. Once we agreed on what worked the best I would have them order at least three from a mail order store, Weiners, or Muncies or anywhere else that stocked them and we would pick the best of the lot and have my original returned to me to re-stock. ( that's why all my students sounded so good :-) )
I know most teachers won't do this due to the time an cost element. Many teachers also insist or encourage their students to use the model mouthpiece they use or something similar. I schooled in NY in the late 50s early 60s with Russianoff who was famous for his "bag of mouthpieces" and his availability to trying many new ones in his "Banner Music Store" as they came available . So I changed MPs now and then in my search for "The perfect one", which I actually found about 4-5 times in my playing career for clarinet. I believe only twice on bass clarinet.

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