Klarinet Archive - Posting 000009.txt from 1994/09

From: Joshua Proschan <0004839378@-----.COM>
Subj: green reeds
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 01:48:50 -0400

James M Norsworthy <norswort@-----.EDU> writes
regarding Vandoren V12's that "... Many of them are
coming green or very brown and that disturbs me because
to us they are basically useless. (anyone think
differently) ..."

I agree that the brown ones are useless. The green ones
may be another matter. I once put a few boxes of
unplayable, greenish Vandorens away to work on during
the summer, and forgot about them. When I came across
them years later, they had dried out and were far better.
I think the key was storing them in a cardboard box, in
a dark and reasonable dry place (for the Northeast).
(This was the high-quality sort of box that department
stores use for jewelry or small leather goods, not the
dark brown box cardboard.) Others that I left in the
Vandoren plastic boxes turned brown and were unusable.

Try it--it may work. Of course, back in those days the
reeds didn't look as if they had been *dyed* green . . .

Josh Proschan