Author: John Peacock
Date: 2011-09-18 19:06
tictactux says:
"worn reads aren't as porous as new ones, ie you can take a fresh reed into your mouth and suck air through it, while all you get with a worn reed is a red face. The clogged pores make the reed unresponsive as they lose their flexibility."
This is all personal preference, of course, but I find the exact opposite: a reed isn't broken in enough for public use until it reaches this point of pores getting blocked. It needs to get a coating from oil off your fingers etc. to seal it up and promote stability. While the pores are open, it gets waterlogged too easily and you can't play for very long. Once a good one reaches that state of sealed stability, it can go on for months. Playing lifetime seems to be prolonged by alternating and resting good reeds. But eventually this ceases to help, and I've never found a way of rejuvenating those that have passed on. I knew a player who swore that boiling them worked for him: I tried it, but without success.
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