Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 1999/12

From: "Fernando1" <fernando1@-----.br>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reeds and Saliva
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 23:51:45 -0500

For that reason you have to clean up your reeds once a week.
Dear Diane, I recently finish my Master dissertation and one of the things
related to the reed that I made a research was saliva x water.
In my conclusions, saliva is made by 96% of water.The acids of the saliva
can not cause any demage to the reed(you could EAT a reed and nothing would
happens with it (argh)(!!!)(???)).
So, if saliva is made by almost 100% of water, you can say that saliva is
almost the same of water.
The big diference betwen water and saliva is their specific gravity: salivas
level is lower then water. Because that the reed become soked in water
faster then in saliva.
To clean the reed I use hydrogen peroxide: works very, very well!!!

All the best

Fernando
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Fernando Silveira
Clarinet Professor - Rio de Janeiro University - Brazil
Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theater Symphony Orchestra
Selmer/Vandoren Artist
fersilv@-----.br

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