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Re: Same reed, different mouthpiece?

Author: Benni
Date: 2003-05-08 02:24

Actually, I'd dry my reeds as much as possible by wiping the excess moisture off before storing them. Storing a reed wet, no matter how good of a reed case you have, can lead to warpage, especially the dreaded crinkly tip! [whoa]

However, if you do have a crinkly tip reed and it doesn't flatten itself out after a bit, you can wet it and press it on a flat piece of glass (or, as a clarinet professor once told me, the tip to the table of your mpc) to straighten it out.

Of course, your original question is dealing more with the reeds conforming to the facing of one mpc or the other. (This was more in reply to the reply.) That is a perfectly normal thing and why you shouldn't test mpcs with a broken-in reed. True, it makes the testing process a little more difficult, but it is best to test mpcs with a handful of new reeds so you are not using one that is incorrectly adapted to the facing.

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