Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2023-05-28 17:20
Wookie001 wrote:
> Is the special Vandoren humidity sealing for reeds necessary or
> does it improve the quality? Because most other brands don't
> have that.
We've discussed this before (search the archive for people's thoughts). I don't find the sealed foil packaging necessary or, I suspect, useful. The reeds will have to function in the player's atmospheric environment, not in Paris. The boxes are sealed in plastic, which should protect the reeds adequately from whatever they need to be protected from. Opening the foil packs is, to me at least, a nuisance, and they become trash that probably doesn't decompose in a landfill and isn't (in my locality) acceptable for recycling.
Here's my curmudgeonly rant:
I also wish the companies that put them in plastic holders (e.g. all D'Addario, Brio, Lurie) would put them in cardboard holders like Aria, Pilgerstorfer and Steuer. My local recycling service doesn't want the plastic holders, either - too small, jams the machinery. I suppose the way reeds all were packaged when I was a student (laid flat is rows of 5 with a heavy paper separator between rows and lots of cushiony paper packaging on top and bottom) allowed a reed tip or two once in a while to break, but I think I'd take that over the wasteful, trash producing modern packaging.
Paper packaging of almost any sort can be disposed of easily. The more protective and indestructible the packaging becomes, the harder it is ultimately to get rid of.
Karl
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