Author: Jim22
Date: 2018-03-26 03:34
BGBG, how much do you play, and how long at each session? If you play many hours a week, and many hours each day, working up a box of reeds at a a time makes sense. If you are just getting started, or only play 30 minutes a day, you can probably just work on a few at a time. Long practice sessions will make a reed mushy, so best to have enough that you can switch out every every 30-60 minutes, then let them rest and dry for a few days.
Someone recently commented that to get some perspective on this, play oboe for a while. Absolutely true! Oboe reeds don't even come in boxes, cost as much as a box of clarinet reeds, EACH, and get played out much faster. Theres no real option to breaking them in, but it's still critical to have a few that play to rotate.
Jim C.
CT, USA
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