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Re: New Reeds

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-03-30 04:57

I'm not sure what you meant when you said that you did not "re-wet" the reeds.

The scenario I envision is that you take a reed out of the box, set it in a little aspirin size bottle of water (vamp end half in the water), after about 2 minutes you take the reed out and place it on the mouthpiece and play for five minutes, then you take the reed off and set it down to dry (putting in reed guard after drying out a bit), return to that reed the next day to repeat the process. Of course you do that for at least three other reeds (or rest of box of ten) for about four days. On the fifth day, you take the first reed out, put in water for a few minutes, place on mouthpiece and play for however long your session or rehearsal lasts (and or use for the rest of day, re-wetting before each practice or rehearsal). The next day, you take our reed #2 and do that. Once you get to last reed, go back to first one.....repeat.

Never let a reed dry out during the playing of it......that's not part of the process.

................Paul Aviles

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