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Re: dry cold weather - reed making

Author: oboi  Date:   2014-01-12 05:42 In the winter, my house is around 30% humidity. (I argue to set the furnace humidifier higher, but then it fogs up all the windows in the house.) So I just set a large jar of water over the heat vent and my room is sitting at around 40%. I don't think it goes more than 60% in the summer. I don't change my reedmaking techniques, nor do I notice any difference specifically due to the time of year. Because I tend to have the door closed in the small room, it can get pretty hot in there, even moreso than in the summer when I have the AC running. I don't really get paranoid about my reeds and weather. They are often not in my case and I have a huge tendency of soaking for variable amounts of time. I do get paranoid about the instrument and keeping it stable. From a place where the Mars weather scientists recently compared to the temps out here.

Topics	Author	Date
dry cold weather - reed making  new	mjfoboe	2014-01-10 03:17
Re: dry cold weather - reed making  new	Tita	2014-01-10 11:43
Re: dry cold weather - reed making  new	mjfoboe	2014-01-10 18:48
Re: dry cold weather - reed making  new	ptarmiganfeather	2014-01-11 19:22
Re: dry cold weather - reed making  new	Wes	2014-01-12 02:30
Re: dry cold weather - reed making  new	oboi	2014-01-12 05:42
Re: dry cold weather - reed making  new	WoodwindOz	2014-01-12 01:43
Re: dry cold weather - reed making  new	Wes	2014-01-12 10:16
Re: dry cold weather - reed making  new	mjfoboe	2014-01-13 03:57
Re: dry cold weather - reed making  new	Oboe Craig	2014-01-17 09:36
Re: dry cold weather - reed making  new	oboi	2014-01-20 09:56

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