Klarinet Archive - Posting 000081.txt from 1997/05

From: peter.stoll@-----.ca
Subj: reed allergy
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 20:20:37 -0400

Recently while adjudicating at a music festival, a student asked me what
she could do; she has developed an allergic reaction to reed cane that
causes her lower lip to swell up; only copious amounts of some sort of
cold creme gets her through playing. I could only think of saran wrap as
a potential insulator; obviously we need flexible and sensitive contact
of the lower lip with the reed. Has anyone run into this? She does not
want to play fibrecane reeds, for reasons of the kind of sound you can
expect to get.

Thanks
P