Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-09-14 16:58
I am not sure you are getting a better seal that way or you are creating a hydroplaning effect. It would be a shame to have a perfectly flat table and then cause it to be less than that.
I did have a brief dalliance with the idea of placing moisture under the reed early in my Legere experience. You can see the progression of moisture build up under the reed (they are almost perfectly clear) as you continue to play. There also seemed to be a bit more "solidity" to the sound once the underside (or a lot of it anyway) seemed overtaken by moisture. I reasoned that if I started out that way things would start off better. So I "soaked" the Legeres in my mouth prior to playing for a period of close to a year.
When I finally switched back to just "slapping the reed on," the sound improved noticeably and I never went back. My guess was that I was causing more gaps than I was preventing. But the bottom line was that, at least with plastic, this idea of starting out with a moisture barrier was not a good idea.
Condensation moisture builds up pretty quickly anyway.
As for detritus (of which I am somewhat of an expert, drinking fizzy drinks and eating sandwiches while I play.........not much of a "have-to-brush-before-playing" guy), unless you have some particle that stops the reed from vibrating, or makes the reed considerably "duller," then there should not be an issue. Even with that, you can do a quick "slurp" to get rid of most obstructions on the fly.
...............Paul Aviles
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