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 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:53 pm
In 6th grade, there was this one guy who used the same reed for like the first four months (we were just starting) and he had trouble playing on it one day, and the part that goes against the mouthpiece was pure black but the outside was normal colored. Then he had to ask if he could throw it away. rolleyes This was an alto player, btw. And I'm a clarinetist who also plays alto sax. Go figure.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:25 pm
Jingle bells, Jingle bells,Ew...I'm so lucky I have a brass instrument.... Jingle all the way!
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:58 pm
Hey, guys, all you have to do to keep mold off your reed is store it in the plastic case it comes in (if you use Rico or Rico Royal), and wipe the spit off every time you play.
And throw them out if they start to smell funky or gross.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:22 am
Ew. Thank God its never happened to me. Though the inside of my mouth piece can get pretty disgusting at times. ><
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:24 am
if it did thats gross. my friends alto sax reed did. but i only use reeds for 3 weeks then i toss them cause i don't want to get sick or any thing. i play 2 reeded insterments so i know how to take care of reeds. also if u have a dirty mouth peice, just wash it out with water and take a cloth and swip it back and forth.
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:21 pm
Durring a jazz band concert we had, the sax i was using kept on squeeking and we didnt have enough time to check so the band teacher told me to get one from the band room. I took out a case and inside a mouthpeice along with the reed and ligiture were all still together for who-knows-how-long (they werent even in the compartment were the mouthpeice was suposed to be)and the reed had blue and green and little white growing on it.It was gross! Luckily my friend had his sax to use because he played bari in jazz band that year. THANK YOU HAYDEN!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:59 am
THats why you have to keep your reeds and mouthpieces clean.....
Thers this Alto Sax kid and he was playing and said that his reed started to taste like bleach
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:20 pm
I had the mold problem a few times for my clarinet and sax, but I later switched to a plastic type of reed for both instruments. The tone seems about the same.. Now I don't have to worry about mold and other icky stuff. Sure, it's a bit more pricey than the traditional wooden reeds, but it's definately worth the investment. I recommend it to everyone! Out with the old. In with the new!
By the way, the one plastic type of reed thing I use for my sax, I have not yet replaced it and I've had it for well over 8 years. It still plays like a dream. whee
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:51 pm
My clarinet reeds WERE a year old...
And yeah they were turning brown and getting pretty gross....
So I bought new ones.....
You shouldn't play on moldy reeds...
It's not healthy....
I suggest buying a full 10-20 pack of new ones and keeping them in your case.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:27 pm
Hehe...
My freshman year. I had had a reed on my Bass Clarinet for like six weeks...which was too long for me, and one day I pulled it off (I always put my instrument away with it still on) and it had all this stuff on the back. Unfortunately, I didn't have anymore and I had to play through a game with it. I was the butt of the moldy jokes until our two oldest Basses graduated.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:26 pm
Nope Never I play the Sax and I remember to take my reed out of its mouth piece. I think it is disgusting to keep it in there because all the lower chairs then me do that and all of them have grown A LOT of mold and my Teacher gives them a good yelling xDDD
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:19 am
Kaenko Her conscience calls the guilty to come home.When I was first starting out on oboe last year, I accidentally grew a little bit of mold on my reed. I ended up flipping out and making a huge scene ("OMGOMGOMG EWWWWWWWW"), but it just washed off. :3 Your tears don't fall and crash around me... yea that happened to me too! it like started in the middle then it kinda moved south xd but i cant stand plastic reeds....
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:06 pm
I never put my reed back in its case after I play (tenor sax), I just leave it in the mouthpiece. So at a concert I was putting my instrument together and tried adjusting my reed and it just stuck there! So I ran it under some water and there was a bunch of really nasty tannish yellow goop on the edges and inside the mouthpiece eek ! After that day I put my reed in my case and cleaned my mouthpiece out everytime xd
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:42 pm
Ewww no.
But once i had to try bass clarinet once (i play clarinet) and the reed was SO disgusting. It didn't have mold on it but it smelled horrible and tasted nasty.
But i change my reed like.... every month or something. Whenever it gets too soft.
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:06 pm
I only change my reed when I break it... I have a habit of killing reeds, like one time a put down my oboe for two minutes, came back and it was cracked down the blade!
The only reeds I have that went moldy where my bagpipe chanter reeds, and that's because I don't have a 'reed saver' and they don't come with cases, and it's a pain in the a** to tune pipe chanters! They just grow a black circle on the flat middle of the blade, and we use it until it's really weakened and useless.. or we give it to pipers who need weaker reeds... (We pipers are unsanitary, we occasionally put our mouths on each others reeds and blowpipes)
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