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Re: Do you rotate your reeds?

Author: sylvangale
Date: 2007-08-28 07:16

I don't generally rotate my reeds unless I'm playing a rather new reed at a rehearsal and I don't want to kill it (I'd want to get a good week out of it).

I'll play a reed for up to a couple of weeks, once it hits a 2nd rehearsal it gets filed away in my used reed case whether it's dead or not (this is 2 weeks of time, regardless of how little played).

I'll then have a collection of reeds on their way out that I can use when I have the need of a reed in emergencies or to allow a new reed to break in if it needs it. If when I go through them looking for a usable reed and I find they are still not very usable... <crack>.

If the used reed case gets too full, I'll play some to death to clear room.

I have tried reed rotation, but I lose track of how old reeds get and I never know when to throw them out so adding a new reed to the set can really throw me for a loop since it will play so differently. I then crush all the old reeds I was supposed to be rotating.