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Re: Wavy Reed Tip

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-03-22 18:55

Ed Palanker wrote:

> That's one of the reasons I explain in my website
> reed pages never to actually soak a reed, just to wet the vamp
> portion for a few seconds and then flatten the tip if it's
> wavy.

Chris P wrote:

> Soak it well, just as you'd do to get it ready for playing.

Soak or wet briefly? It seems to me this depends in part on whether or not you humidify your reeds in storage and, if you do, how much humidity. If you start with a dry reed, more specifically a used dry reed, it will take more soaking to get it ready to play than if you keep your reeds at 63% or 70% humidity. Reeds stored with humidity packs don't get wavy nearly as often as reeds that are allowed to dry.

Ed humidifies his reeds (he says so often, even in this thread, and on his web pages). I don't honestly remember whether Chris does or not.

Karl

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