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Re: Sustainable Packaging for reeds

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-09-01 20:57

ACCA wrote:

> I also wonder what the science is on having wrapped
> reeds- I'm very sceptical. Surely any supposed advantage of
> sealing is reversed once you've opened the package.

I've always wondered if they're trying to seal something in or to seal something out. Either way, I agree that once you've opened the foil packaging, whatever was being protected is completely exposed to whatever the Pilgerstorfers and other reeds packaged in paper and cardboard are. I don't notice for myself that Vandoren reeds show any particular superiority for their more protective packaging.

I have friends who make a practice of taking their VD reeds out of the foil wrapping and letting them sit in the local air for a couple of weeks before trying to use them.

> I wonder if there's a way
> the single-reed-playing community could petition and pressure
> vandoren, an any other similar offenders, into cleaning up
> their act.

Decades ago, when I first began to encounter plastic reed holders - I think they might have been Luries while Vandoren was in a U.S. distribution dispute with, I think, Carl Fischer - I complained and very naively asked the company if they'd take the holders back. The response was "yes" (at my expense for the shipping) but they never promised to reuse them. I realize now that they probably trashed them just as I would have at home. Since then, of course, RICO (over their entire line of brand names) and Vandoren have expanded plastic holders to all of their reeds.

Karl

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