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Re: Reed Plastic Bags

Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-11-26 20:57

I probably keep more reeds in humidified rotation than I need too as well.

I suspect this comes from a combination of lessons learned, metaphorically skinned knees, bad luck and Murphy's law combined--which have found me on certain days finding bad results on multiple reeds I considered the best of my picks only yesterday.

But that said, I wonder the following:

There's something to be said about rotating your reeds. Perhaps on this nearly all of us can agree; where we differ being only on the needed extent of this rotation and the size of the reed pool from which we rotate reeds.

And I think we all do this under the belief that a reed will give us more useful play time when allowed rest.

This segues into exactly what magical processes happen during this time we call reed rest. Does it drying out somewhat from play allow it to more closely return to the state it was in before we played it, baring off course the wear and tear that thousands of vibrations have placed on it during its last time on our mouthpiece?

And if so, what is this magical amount of time we should allow it to rest such that its life is maximized?

Should these questions have answers--and I suspect if they do, they may differ for each of us, we can apply math to derive the optimal number reeds to keep in rotation, such that increasing our pool size does not increase the life of the reeds within it, or does so only so marginally, as to not be worth it.

Thoughts?

Post Edited (2015-11-26 20:59)

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