Author: GoodWinds ★2017
Date: 2012-04-14 17:38
"how does everyone else keep track of which reed/staple is which?"
Like you, I 'park' my reeds in an order of their degree of function/usefulness.
I have my 'unfinished's, my 'too hard yet', my 'unstable but let's hope they get better' (and sometimes they DO!!!).
So, first and foremost, I tell them apart by which 'slot' they occupy in the reed box.
I have another box for 'just wrapped' reeds (blanks). THESE get classified by the type/shape of cane and the length of the staple, and I use different thread colours. For example (and this is not to offer any suggestion/recommendation, by the way), my Glotin-V shaped cane on 46mm staple=maroon, Glotin-V on 47mm staple=brown; Rigotti narrow=teal, and the other misc shapes (that I buy on discount from here and there)=peach. I keep a little paper in the box listing which colour goes with which.
It's only natural that my best reeds tend to end up being the same colour, which helps me to purchase consistently in future.
Sometimes I'll mark the cork with a permanent marker, to set something apart. It can be an arrow (pointing up if the reed tends to play sharp) or a dot, or in the case of a Really Questionable Reed a dash -- .
As I have memory problems this is of real help to me.
GoodWinds
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