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Re: Oiling Reeds?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2017-03-28 17:38

The '60s was a very different world and I can only assume food hygiene wasn't high on the list of priorities and chances are there were other things that would've killed people much earlier than ingesting used engine oil and soot.

I've yet to try either cod or haddock and chips all fried in beef dripping.

And in woodwind specialist shops until fairly recently, there were often reeds left soaking in pots of water for people to play test instruments and not sterilised between each player as weren't mouthpieces. Surprised there weren't outbreaks of cholera or other water borne diseases as a result. But I suppose coal dust or soot used in newspaper ink had antibiotic properties, so that could go somewhere to keeping reeds rubbed with it disinfected.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

Independent Woodwind Repairer
Single and Double Reed Specialist
Oboes, Clarinets and Saxes

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