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[Rogerb]

I am getting on quite well with some of the new-ish Fibracell Premiers ..... very convenient to use, too.

 

[Bobby G]

FrankB wrote:

Bobby G wrote:
I'm sure it's been mentioned before, Frank, and you probably already do this, but rotating a few ( say four or five) of your favourite reeds is a good idea.

Yep. However, rotating the same favourites over... ahem, yes. Well, let's just say "quite a protracted length of time"(!) is not recommended!

I can be such a spanner at times!

I've opened my reserve box of RJS and ordered a couple more.

I find you can prolong the life of your favourite reed a little (kind of akin to boiling your bass strings when they get a bit dead-sounding); I give it a brisk 'file/scrape/rub-down' by agitating it rapidly across my bottom teeth for a minute or so, which seems to brighten it up somewhat. Of course the next step was discovering half a box of new reeds that all sounded fine so I threw the olduns out :erm:

 

[sandeha_lynch]

I have one reed that's a year old and just the thing for reminiscing about childhood ... it really does sound better than a comb in toilet paper.

 

[Bobby G]

nachoman wrote:
Ah, reeds- god's joke on those who play the sax! don't we all just love 'em.... 😡

Does that mean that synthetic reeds are used by those who bow down before false gods, or are they the work of the devil?