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Re: Anyone storing wooden reeds in a fridge?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-10-16 16:25

Micke Isotalo wrote:

> 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?

Short answer - I don't.

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

Such as?

> However, I've discovered that storing my reeds in an old
> fashioned basement department for food storage keeps them just
> fine...
> 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).
>

Sounds like a lot of trouble.

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

But a lot less convenient than using a Boveda humidity pack.

If you want to insist on humidifying your reeds, which some but not all players do, a humidifier pack seems cheaper, more convenient and more efficient than pretty much anything else you could invent.

Karl

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