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Re: Moldy reed

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.

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