Conditioning Your Reeds 

You would not believe how many bad saxophone tutorials on RU-vid. This RU-vid channel stops that streak; your videos are a miracle! Thank you!!

me: *puts reed in case* “that should be fine” rob: “ so daily, i record the statuses of each of my marked reeds i keep it humidity-controlled bags into a notepad, and continue tracking its progress throughout my career.”

Hi Dr. Young, your videos are so helpful. I'm actually in 7th grade and in my 2nd year of playing and your videos are really helping me so much. You really have the best tone imaginable.

I'm so happy I found this channel. And I love the background music. Didn't find it distracting.

Thank you so Much Dr. Young. God Bless you

Video is instructionally great. Doc., glad that I've discovered same. Thank you!

Hey Robert - great advice and insight. My advice is to keep your reeds in a humidifier to A: keep 'em sanitized and B: to also keep 'em moist so the reeds don't have to undergo the stresses of moistening / drying out / moistening / drying out /. Easy to make one for yourself with an "appropriate" sanitiser or buy a Reedjuvinate if you couldn't be bothered.

Hope you're doing well, Dr. Young! I have been using this conditioning method since I first saw this video, and it works very well! However, sometimes, the reeds seem to either barely change or get worse. Is there anything I can do to guarantee that my reeds get better after breaking them in?

I used to fight (Jupiter 789) with my altissimo (up to D4), on La Voz, and then V16s (not so bad). One day I decided to spend the money and try a Legere signature, now the sax plays better than ever, so much, that if you said I could have a pro horn but have to use cane reeds, I'd keep what I have. And zero maintenance and the reed will play straight every time I blow it, no warm up or anything.

Thanks bro!

Thanks for this: love your tips and your sound. But the solo performance audio in this video is REALLY distracting and makes it very difficult to focus on your explanation. I get the intuition to have music to add interest and fill the gaps, but maybe attenuate the level after the intro?

Thank you for your Video. I will imitate your process with the new reeds! Can you please recommend us a learning book (or E-book) for intermedia classical altosaxophone? Greetings from Hamburg!

Great video! I'm trying it out right now. At what point, if any, in the process do you make adjustments to the reed if needed?

luv de muzik maet

Background music disturbes

Hi Robert, am I right in thinking that is some pantyhose as per "the pantyhose trick" around your neck? I also do this, but on my old SBA tenor - to reduce the sound of the air from the pip on the octave key pad. I always thought it was a problem with an old horn like mine and possibly an incorrectly sized or positioned octave pip, so I am surprised to see it around you modern Selmer. Do you do this to reduce this same noise? Nice video by the way. Reedspect. :p

Thank you Robert. Very useful + Devil = In Details))))

great video but background music is too loud :o

Hello Dr. Young! What is your opinion on plastic reeds? Have you tried them before?

What about conditioning synthetic reeds any tips ?

Hi Robert, what kind of neck-strap/harness are you using? Thanks! Michael

Doc, I'm interested in that you don't espouse paper sanding the reed fibers. Many players who follow a similar routine to yours also add polishing the reed back, heel, and top. I've adopted this and feel that it really closes the open fibers. Any comments are appreciated!

How do you know when a reed is dead?

What's the song that plays in the beginning?

Are there holes in that ziplock?

Very informative video, but the background music is too loud. It shouldn’t compete with what you are saying.

I don't pay that much attention to my health

Cut the background stuff .. for me to be interested I need maximum uninterrupted attention

Pretty much impracticable unless youre a professional musician