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 Re: Long term safety of using plastic reeds?
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2023-04-26 23:13

Let's take a slight step back for a moment. There are those still not familiar with Legere or other similar solid pieces of synthetic material. It would not be fair to compare anything with a plastic coating to these solid pieces. There is nothing to "break off" or deteriorate as you might experience with older, coated cane reeds. The good news about large pieces of plastic as far as we are concerned is that they are non-reactive to water or any of our biological processes.


Now, Michael Lowenstern and his wife just did a review of the new Vandoren synthetics. In the video Michael warms everyone NOT to sand a synthetic reeds. This would of course cause the creation of much smaller particles that could conceivably enter a persons blood stream and cause medical issues down the road (the micro plastics problem........we ALL now have a measurable amount in us already and you can find plenty of references for that).


As far as any sort of wear or deterioration of the synthetic reeds over time, it has been my experience that this does NOT happen. The degradation of performance only comes in the form of the reed bending closer to the mouthpiece over time and manifesting a weaker performance. I have now started looking down both side edges of my older synthetics, noting where the bend happens and bending them back to a straight plane. This completely brings the old reeds back to life!




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