Klarinet Archive - Posting 000844.txt from 1998/03

From: joesmarts@-----.com (Stephen J Frederick)
Subj: Re: Mould on reeds
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 11:44:32 -0500

It depends if you would like to use the bleach or the sand paper. My
option for temporary purposes is to sand your reed, I personally have not
tried the bleach solution so I would not know how it works.

Stephen Frederick

On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:28:19 -0700 (MST) Josh-Boy <joshcole@-----.Edu>
writes:
>On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Stephen J Frederick wrote:
>
>> I found that you dont need bleech to get rid of the mold, because
>this
>> often occurs with my reeds. what i found you could is get a piece of
>sand
>> paper and rub it over the read gently until the mold comes off.
>
>I'm not a biologist or anything, so I'm probably setting myself up for
>this -- but, um, doesn't mold grow into the reed and not just on? I
>remember seeing a magnified photograph of bread mold way back in
>junior
>high, and I could have sworn it had extensions growing into the bread
>for
>purposes of nutrition. In which case, sanding really wouldn't get rid
>of
>the mold, right? It's kind of like hacking away at weeds -- you can
>"kill" the weeds as many times as you want, but until the roots are
>dead,
>the weeds stay and grow. Let me know if I'm way off track (and I know
>you
>all will!!!) -- if I'm right (which has a probability of about 1 in a
>few
>billion of happening!! ;-) ), then I think the 10% bleach solution
>will
>work best. Besides, I always mess up sanding my reeds anyway, so
>sanding
>the part of the reed I play on would cause bad things to happen!!
>
>Joshua M. Coleman
>http://web.nmsu.edu/~joshcole
>(Under construction always because I have NO TIME to do anything with
>it!)
>
>If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to
>see it, do the other trees make fun of it?
>
>If an elephant falls, which suffers more: the elephant or the ground?
>
>

   
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