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Re: Humidity

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2017-10-13 04:37

If you wet your reeds for about 3 to 5 minutes before playing on them, well this should be fine. If the reeds are new, right out of the box and you feel them changing, re-wet them. They should spring back to life. If they don't, put them aside and let them dry out, most likely they are too wet or just bad cane.

I think 5 minutes is plenty for reeds to soak in enough water. After they have been broken in you only need to wet them for about a minute or less. Such as a reed that is 2 to 6 weeks old. They are well sealed.

Soaking reeds for 24/7 will kill your reeds.

Karl is dead on about witchcraft. Keep things simple. Cane is actually classified as a weed. It is in the bamboo family and there are 256 different species. As said I kinda know a bit about this subject.

I am NOT pushing the Steuer reeds, but they have several cane fields in the VAR region and have since the 1940's. So if they have flooding or no rain on a given year they have 3 to 5 years of selected stored cane, they have so much cane! I am just letting people know that cane is like wine when you have great years take advantage of these seasons. When the cane is good buy a lot of boxes to last you for a few years. 1 box of good VAR reeds should last you at least or about a year. So if you buy 10 boxes you are set for maybe 10 years. I have enough reeds for about 10 years. They don't go bad. But the color does chance slightly. By the way, although I import these reeds I have to buy them just like everyone else. I import them because the cane is so good and great players such as Sabine Meyer play on them. They are completely PESTICIDE FREE. The water, fertilizers, surrounding areas, are all natural.

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Post Edited (2017-10-13 08:55)

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