Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-09-11 20:56
My experience would lead me to believe that it is the altitude and climate at your destination that would create difficulty with your reeds.
Somewhere on this board, the comment was cogently made that it is actually not the reeds, but our bodies, which are most affected by atmospheric changes, thus creating the sense of the reeds playing differently at different altitudes, etc.
I don't know about that, but I do know that when I flew to Santa Fe, New Mexico (high altitude), this past summer, I had the devil of a time with reeds needing to be scraped down, down, down in order to be responsive.
On the other hand, I have flown with my reeds to Durham, North Carolina (average altitude), and experienced no noticeable change in their playability. (The only problem there was that they got moldy when I put them away damp.)
A commercial airplane is pressurized to mimic a normal atmosphere, so I doubt that simply flying on an airline would cause much reed change. Don't know about flying in a Piper Cub. But you aren't going barnstorming, anyway, right?
Susan
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