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Re: Anyone storing wooden reeds in a fridge?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-10-17 00:21

Micke Isotalo wrote:

> Karl: Your experience may very well be different, but as an
> example I can't remember any of my reeds having a wrinkled tip
> when humidity is + 50 %. Between 40-50 % some starts wrinkling,
> and below 40 even more reeds are doing that.

You're right about this, but I've never found wrinkled tips to be so much of a problem. They straighten out with a half-minute or so of wetting and, if that's not enough, they can be "ironed" flat with a thumb massaging them against a flat surface a few times.

>
> Sorry if someone experienced this as an unnecessary topic, or
> if it even offended someone.
>

I doubt if you offended anyone, certainly not me, and no topic here is unnecessary. You did omit in your original post the part about storing hundreds of reeds this way. I still don't find humidifying reeds necessary in general, but if you're going to do it, that many reeds wouldn't probably fit in most people's clarinet cases, so your idea of using a refrigerator or some other large storage area makes more sense now.