Author: Dutchy
Date: 2010-04-18 04:30
The idea behind rotating reeds is to be breaking in several reeds at the same time, because that way you have a "stable" of decent playable reeds. It's not because the reed needs to "rest" as such; it's just that the more you play on it, the quicker it will wear out. So if you have a good collection of playable reeds, all of which you rotate and play for short periods on each one, then you'll never be in the position of having THE Reed (capitalized), i.e. the only reed you're using, go abruptly toes-up on you in the middle of a session, leaving you with nothing to play on but brand-new not-broken-in reeds.
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