Klarinet Archive - Posting 000859.txt from 2000/01

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Life
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 01:43:02 -0500

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 SoulClarinetAdam@-----.com wrote:

> i have a question, might be a bit inferior, but, why is it that when you buy
> a box of reeds and you don't touch but a few and put the rest back, and when
> you go to pull some out to play they sound like a reed that's been chewed on?
> I mean, every time I do that, that all sound like there three times stronger.

Reeds tend to harden with age. But at the same time, they don't tend to
harden more than .75 of a strength or so, and their life span is
significantly increased. Fresh from the box (and sealed/flattened, of
course), a reed will last me about two months in rotation with three
others, with about 3 to 4 hours of playing a day. If I let the reeds age
for two years...well, I recently threw out a reed that had died after
being in service since November of 1998!

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"If I wanted a 'job,' I'd have gone music ED, thank you very much!"

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