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Help with reeds

Author: Campana
Date: 2012-02-19 12:49

I am a beginner who lives in the "sticks" with no access to a music teacher. I have no option but to teach myself, which is fine as, due to my age, can have no other ambitions than personal satisfaction. Mostly I have found huge amounts of help from books, You Tube and the Internet. Except for reeds!.
These are some of the things I have read...
1) A learned treatise which states out of every packet of 10 reeds, most will be useless and unplayable, chuck them away. The remaining 2 or 3 still aren't any good until they have been worked on with a variety of tools.
2) Put the reed in your mouth for the length of time it takes to assemble the clarinet.
3) Don't put the reed in your mouth to wet it, use clean water.
4) Immerse the whole reed.
5)Don't immerse the whole reed, only the thin end.
6) Soak a new reed...Overnight...30 minutes...1 minute.

What I would like to know, is it a reasonable expectation for a beginner to buy a pack of 10 Rico reeds and use them all, how long to soak brand new ones, how long to soak a previously used one prior to playing and can reeds get waterlogged during playing and give deteriorating results.
I use a 1982 B&H wooden with a B40 mouthpiece and equally happy with a 2 or 2.1/2 reed.
Many thanks to anybody that answers.

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