Reed Problems for big reeds.

Hey all. I am playin the bari sax for jazz band and bass clarinet for regular band and I`ve noticed that since the reeeds are so stinking big, that they don`t dry out good when I put them in my case and was wondering if there was some way to make them dry faster or ANYTHING to make them not ... ugh... grow mold. i dry them off as much as I can and all but still they get gross and sry but I`m tired of playin 5 bucks a reed for the bari reeds and was hoping ANYONE could hlp me! ...please...

Nicole
www.wfhsbigred.com <Thats my band`s site.

One thing that might work is try wrapping your reed in your spitrag, obviously before you run your spitrag through your sax, for about 5 minutes, it should soak up most of the spit.

what i do is take the reed off th moulthpeice and put it in a little case w/ a spit cloth under it and leave it there until i play again. Works for me.

There are reed holders that are four reeds back to back, two on each side, that hold the reed flat while it dries...it`s vented to help dry faster...I have one for my tenor saxophone....works wonders.

I`m just curious where ur gettin bari sax reeds for $5 cuz they`re runnin` me about $9 a reed.

Rico and LaVoz bari reeds are less expensive. She is most likely using them.

Anyways, for drying out the reed, I would highly suggest bclarsax`s point. I use similar reed holders for alto and bari called "reedgard" cases. They hold the reed flat, while draining out the moisture. I noticed that when I first started using them, my reeds lasted at least twice as long. They are very cheap, only $2 or so for a 2-reed capacity case.