 The Clarinet BBoard
|
Author: Tobin
Date: 2009-03-16 17:26
One of my students reported opening a new Vandoren reed and discovering it covered in mold. Anyone else experience this?
Curiosities' sake only!
James
Gnothi Seauton
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: GBK
Date: 2009-03-16 18:25
Perhaps the green tinge was just under developed cane?
Lately, I've seen far too many of those. ..GBK
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-03-16 18:44
If the reeds really had mold -- powdery black stuff -- a simple cure is to scrub it off with toothpaste and an old toothbrush. I've done it many times back when Tom Ridenour sold reeds under his own name brand, which he shipped in clear, airtight plastic sleeves. If you played one and put it back into the sleeve without getting it **completely** dry, mold grew overnight. They were good reeds, though, and worth scrubbing.
Ken Shaw
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2009-03-17 15:04
But, if I'm reading correctly what James wrote, this was a brand new reed that had become moldy in the store packaging:
>>One of my students reported opening a new Vandoren reed and discovering it covered in mold. Anyone else experience this?>>
Was this really a newly-purchased reed, or had the student bought it some time ago and stored it? (In an opened box? In original packaging? Sealed?) I'm in the habit of buying reeds and not opening them all up immediately, but thanks to this message, I think I'd better start checking the reeds while I've still got the receipt. If I store a reed and it gets moldy in my house, then that's my responsibility. But, if I discovered that a brand-new reed that I opened from a sealed package was moldy directly from the store or the mail-order house, then I think I would try to return that reed.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
Post Edited (2009-03-17 15:05)
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Tobin
Date: 2009-03-17 15:41
A brand spankin' new Vandoren reed in its' little humidified shrinkwrap single-serve packaging. Except that is was Moldy.
Erin go Bragh!
James
Gnothi Seauton
Post Edited (2009-03-17 15:42)
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: donald
Date: 2019-08-15 14:56
I have a box of reeds that I opened, started to break in, then forgot about a year ago.... they are now covered in black mold (mould in the rest of the world) but actually a few of them play quite nicely.
Any ideas for removing the black mold/mould? Soak in alcohol, scrub with toothpaste?
Boiling water? (haven't ever thought about what that might do to a reed)
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-08-15 17:59
Given that mold is within the fibers of the cane and that many molds can be rather toxic, your safest option is the trash can.
...............Paul Aviles
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: donald
Date: 2019-08-16 04:31
That's what I thought, but a couple of them are QUITE NICE, so if I can soak them in something that will kill mould but not ME, that would be more useful...
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Anonymoose
Date: 2019-08-16 06:51
I have a colleague who plays the bassoon and he was curious on the quality of commercially made reeds for the clarinet (his clarinet friend was having reed issues). He got a bunch of NEW clarinet reeds from Vandoren and soaked them in water for a few hours. He noticed that the water turned extremely muddy, brown in color. Again, they're new. He mentioned that bassoon cane water remains mostly clear/yellowish in color after a few hours of soaking.
Could be that the moldy reeds are due to bad cane quality.
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-08-16 07:09
Throw them out as Paul said. Or send them to Vandoren if they are still open in New York City? Let them aware and get a new box.
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: hans
Date: 2019-08-16 07:19
Hydrogen peroxide, available at drug stores, should kill the mold. I've used it to kill mold on the stone window sills on the north side of my house.
Hans
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Tom H
Date: 2019-08-19 02:56
If it's real mold I agree--trash can. Unless you do what I used to do when teaching beginning Band. Put it in plastic and show the kids what happens when you don't wash the reed & mouthpiece after each use.
The Most Advanced Clarinet Book--
tomheimer.ampbk.com/ Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001315, Musicnotes product no. MB0000649.
Boreal Ballad for unaccompanied clarinet-Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001314.
Musicnotes product no. MNO287475
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-08-19 06:49
Oh that may be another option. Cultivate the mold and see what it grows into. Penicillin was discovered by accident!
................Paul Aviles
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: kdk
Date: 2019-08-19 12:14
But probably better in a petri dish than on a reed you're putting in your mouth.
Karl
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
The Clarinet Pages
|
 |
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
