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Re: Hygrometers

Author: SecondTry
Date: 2021-02-28 00:04

Karl: unlike your talk about humidity, mine centers here only around that of my reeds.

That said, as I'm sure you would also conclude, the humidity levels you are reading, at least in the confined space that your resting reeds lie, if in fact wrong, could be a product of 0 - 3 factors: hydrometer, Boveda pack, and storage case.,

I use this for my reed storage as opposed to a plastic zip lock bag:

https://www.amazon.com/Lock-1-5-Cups-Removable-Trays/dp/B0028LT9DI

This was the product Rico rebranded a few years back, I think before D'Addario get in the business, to store their reeds.

Maybe its your plastic bag (or your hydrometer or Boveda packs

).

FWIW, and I suspect little, I got my hydrometers from Michael Lowenstern over at https://www.earspasm.com/humidity-management and my packs directly from Boveda. I say this to no way disparage either vendors, but I'm sure Mike isn't in his kitchen quality controlled his hydrometers (probably laughing if he's reading this) but what he sells seems to me to correspond well in humidity readings with the humidity level Boveda packs I'm using and serves as my indication that it is time to change packs.

I put two packs in the aforementioned case with Vandoren reed holders holding all my brands of reeds (Behn, Vandoren, Dolce, etc.)

And I have extra Vandoren cases not because any reed I've ever bought from Vandoren wasn't perfect right out of the box and lasted years (NOT!!) but because I have one or two extra (moving boxes worth of) reed cases.

Post Edited (2021-02-28 00:14)

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