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Re: Russianoff mouthpiece

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2020-10-03 16:30

I was studying with Russianoff, who was famous to giving his students his "bag of mouthpieces" to try. He owned the Banner Music Store at the time so he sold and stocked lots clarinet equipment for sale. In the three years I studied with him I probably changed mouthpieces 4-5 times and he asked me to try the one he had his name on. After about two minutes he said, no it's not for you. To my knowledge he had some company make it for him and none of his students that I knew played it, not even himself. As a matter of fact he sold me the MP he was using at the time in my senior year, A Wells 2, because the one I was using for several months that I bought from a Blayman student dropped and broke the day of an orchestra concert. Knowing he was playing one I called him and asked if could borrow it for the concert. He liked the way I sounded so he sold it to me.
I agree with Ed above, if you like it play it.

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