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 Re: Teacher moistens students reed
Author: kdk ★2017
Date:   2010-05-20 13:16

Years ago I used to play on my students' setups regularly. But, like other responders to this question, I stopped doing that as serious - even life-threatening - diseases started grabbing headlines in the 80s and 90s.

If I offer a student a new reed to replace one that is clearly unresponsive, I generally wet a couple of them in a film can of fresh water and let the student try one at a time until we find one that plays well (or better). I don't put these in my mouth and I throw away the rejects - but the ones we don't get to try I dry and put back in my collection for the next time.

I do occasionally still play briefly on a student's reed and mouthpiece just to see how it feels if I'm not sure what a student's problem is from hearing him/her play. I never do this if I know I'm ill, and I always ask if the student has a cold or "anything else I wouldn't want to share." Then, I dry the reed surface off before I play on it and afterward so there's not saliva sitting on the reed surface and hope the same "5 second rule" that allows dropped food to be eaten off the floor applies to putting the mouthpiece in my mouth. :-)

FWIW, my clarinet teachers from junior high school through my graduate degree *always* played on my clarinet at lessons - almost never even had their own instruments unpacked. They tested my reeds, and they always demonstrated on my equipment (more or less to say - "see, it can be done even on this reed"). Those who are not still living somehow survived to very ripe old ages and died of things like cancer and heart failure - I never heard of one of my teachers dying of anything transmissible or infectious.

Karl
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