R.I.P. Mitchell Lurie
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:19 pm
When I was a clarinetist, I used his brand of reeds, which were the ones you graduated to after cutting your teeth (literally!) on those flimsy Rico kind. I always thought "Mitchell Lurie" was just a made-up name connoting quasi-snobbery and faux-elegance. Turns out, that was hardly the case!
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/ ... 3373.story
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