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Author: Matthew Moran
Date: 2008-11-16 18:23
Since Vandoren introduced humidity controlling packaging in their traditional reeds, it makes me think;
Do Reeds have a shelf life?
Would it be unwise to buy discounted New Old Stock reeds? I was considering doing so because they are much cheaper, but perhaps they degrade with time?
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Author: mrn
Date: 2008-11-16 18:45
Everything I've ever seen, heard, or experienced indicates that an unused box of reeds actually gets better with age.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2008-11-16 18:48
Why not, I've always store my reeds for several years before using them. It depends on where they were stored and the quality of the reed cane. You might get some very good reeds, then again, who knows. ESP
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-11-16 19:00
Just to remember the "good old days", every so often I pull out a Morré reed from the boxes I still have remaining from the 1970's.
They still play with the same characteristics as when I first purchased them.
As Ed said, there is no substitute for good cane...GBK
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2008-11-16 21:47
They would be bad if they got moldy by bad storage.
The whole thing of keeping a new reeds humidity under control when it is in dry storage is overkill to me.
Critical when the reed is in play though. The drier the better when in long term storage.
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Author: Eva F.
Date: 2008-11-16 21:54
when i first started playing clarinet, i used my mom's old mitchell luries (32 years
old!!), and they played wondefully (or at least as wonderfully as a beginning
clarinet player can play)!! sadly, i haven't been so impressed with mitchell luries
since...
-Eva
8th Grade Band Nerd!!!
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Author: Geirskogul
Date: 2008-11-17 00:32
As long as they're kept dry, they'll last a long time. Moist reeds = rot.
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Author: Neal Raskin
Date: 2008-11-17 02:26
I wish i could obtain boxes of the old stock reeds. i like to blame the new packaging for the lack of good reeds in each box. also, with companies going "green," why would vandoren use more material in there packaging when (i'm assuming) the general consensus of the reeds in the new packaging is not so good?
I wish I had boxes of reeds from the "good ol' days."
Neal Raskin
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www.musicedforall.com
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Author: pewd
Date: 2008-11-17 03:27
i have a few (3,4?) old purple pastic boxes of vandoren #5's from about 1972.
I'll probably pull them out next spring when i have to play the ginasteria...
most of the boxes i'm opening up now are 18-24 months old. they really are better after aging a year or 2. i store them in an ancient (100+ years old) oak dressing cabinet. very dry.
eva, fwiw, i like the really old ML's - can't say i think much for the newer ones however.
hth,
-paul
- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas
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