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Re: extending reed life

Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-11-02 18:12

My understanding is that ReedLife is basically just hydrogen peroxide, which you can obtain at the grocery store for about a dollar a bottle. From this Clarinet board thread. He's got other proprietary ingredients in there, but mostly it's just peroxide.

I use peroxide occasionally on favorite but "losing it" old reeds, and it does perk them up for a day or so. Peroxide has the effect of dissolving dead organic matter, so it stands to reason that removing the gunk from the reed would make it sound a little better temporarily. But like D-oboe mentioned, after a while the reed's fibers are just compressed and broken, and it won't "sound" properly, and no amount of de-gunking is going to help it.

I just set the reed in it for a 5 minute soak and then rinse it off under running water.

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