The Clarinet BBoard

The Clarinet BBoard The C4 standard

New Topic | Go to Top | Go to Topic | Search | Help/Rules | Smileys/Notes | Log In

Previous Message | Next Message

Peroxide reed soak

Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-04-24 21:17

I see this mentioned with respect to clearing cold sore viruses, and I know it's been covered here before.

Part of my end of practice session regimen is about a 5 min soak of whatever reeds I used, in a used pill bottle, about 1" deep, of half and half peroxide USP gargle/rinse and tap water. I'm told that will kill a lot of bad stuff (but not everything) and is loads better than doing nothing. And also that it does nothing bad to a reed, and perhaps prolongs its life.

For a time I also let the tip of the mouthpiece soak along with the reeds. Then I noticed a bleaching effect- so now the mouthpiece gets Sterisol instead. When I was playing all Legere, they got Sterisol also, not peroxide. But Sterisol leaves a non-rinsable bad taste on cane reeds.

Stan in Orlando

EWI 4000S with modifications

Reply To Message | Avail. Forums | Flat View

Newer Topic | Older Topic

Topics