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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2007-05-18 13:39
Check it out! Hold two wetted reeds together so the tips are lined up and touching. Now look straight into the tips. Are they touching all the way across or are they curled away from each other at the ears? Good, responsive reeds , particularily when new, have flat, uncurled tips. Old, a few new, tired, and unresponsive reeds have tips ears which curl away from the mouthpiece.
richard smith
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2007-05-18 14:09
Yup! Seen that effect. Also ripply end. Cane is made of lots of little tubes that absorb water. When they do that, they swell and bend and flex and are knackered. They -may- revert to flat when dried out (ever rested an old reed and found some more life in it?) but will never be as good as new again.
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Author: Bassie
Date: 2007-05-18 15:33
My favourite brand goes wrinkly when it dries out. Takes a few minutes to wake up again at the start of a session. Storing on glass helps some.
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Author: James
Date: 2007-05-18 18:56
I've actually had the opposite happen to me a few times. The reeds actually bent in towards the mouthpiece. Never really knew why, but it hasn't happened in a while so I hadn't thought about it until I read this.
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