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Anyone storing wooden reeds in a fridge?

Author: Micke Isotalo ★2017
Date: 2017-10-16 12:05

Where I live in northern Sweden wintertime indoor humidity goes as low as around 15 %.

In my experience storing reeds at any level below around 50 % causes more or less severe problems with playability.

However, I've discovered that storing my reeds in an old fashioned basement department for food storage keeps them just fine. There the wintertime temperature is around 5 degrees Celsius (about 40 F) and the relative humidity level may be around 40 % - while the heated rooms in the same building has a temperature around 21 Celsius (70 F) and, as I said, a humidity of only 15 %.

In that basement no added humidity is never needed for the reeds to be perfectly playable (in case you wonder I don't play the reeds in that basement compartment but take out one of them at a time to my practice room and returning them afterwards to the basement).

Since this basement temperature is similar to that in a fridge, I just wonder if anyone else has tried storing reeds in a fridge - at low indoor humidity levels?

It could be more convenient than building an old fashioned food storage basement compartment :-)

Post Edited (2017-10-16 12:15)

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