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How do you keep your new reeds?

Author: charles
Date: 1999-10-30 22:52

Let's assume that you bought 2 boxes of reed and took 2 reeds to play.

1. How do you keep rest 8 reeds ?
2. How do you keep another box? Do you open the box?
Any reason?

Thanks.

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RE: How do you keep your new reeds?

Author: HIROSHI
Date: 1999-10-31 00:57

I take 10 reeds of a box and start to use all of them at once. It will be kept in my 10-reed case.
I break-in them every two days. Namely, if I break-in a reed one day, I do not break-in next day but the day after next day.(Play 5 ones one day, play another 5 ones next day.) Rest of the time I spend using older reeds.
After breaking-in period(about one month) I select only good ones. I throw away worst ones but I keep in a vacan reed box bad ones. I continue to use good ones. But I use one by one cyclically. I do not use the same reed two days.Always let it take off next day. This can lengthen reed life, I believe.

As to another box? I anyway open the seel of a box and keep it my airy banboo mesh box(8' wide,mesh plastic box will work the same), and keep the banboo box on the shelf near ceiling for aging at least 3 months.

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RE: How do you keep your new reeds?

Author: John
Date: 1999-10-31 02:22

How much time do you want to spend working on reeds? Frederick Lubrani (way back in the '60's) said NEVER throw away a reed. It's my understanding that you can make all ten reeds playable, given time to learn to adjust each reed.

What did we do with all those reeds? We had a bonfire late one winter's night!

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