Klarinet Archive - Posting 000232.txt from 1994/11

From: "Lori J. Weyers" <weyelj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Mo(u)ldt ree
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 21:40:27 -0500

Dear Roger:

You must excuse this message if it turns out garbled; this is my first
attempt at replying on Email. If you have never seen a moldy reed, I
would cordially invite you to view any number of my 5th graders'
little slivers of Arundo Donax! :-) Sincerely, Lori J. Weyers

weyelj@-----.edu

According to Roger J. Shilcock:
>
> Like Jim (?), I've never had or seen a mouldy reed, though I certainly don't
> live in a dry climate. Some people must be trying quite hard to get fungally
> infected .... I suspect peroxide is less destructive than sodium hypochlorite;
> it also smells better, and decomposes to give harmless water.
> Roger Shilcock [MLFL, Oxford, England]
>