D'ADDARIO ORGANIC REEDS - finally a green reed?
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Great question and idea for a video/series. One thing that strikes me is that the synthetic reeds last a lot longer--over a year for me--so maybe that offsets the effects of reed farming, packaging, shipping, etc. even though cane is biodegradable.
What about the carbon footprint due to transportation? If I'm not mistaken, the cane that D'Addario uses comes from the South of France but is processed in California before being sold somewhere else in the World. In Europe at least, we should be sticking with reeds that are being manufactured here, even if they come with a little more plastic. I'm not sure I feel confortable playing a reed that travelled more than I ever have in my life.
I got two of these organic Reserve alto reeds to try. Since they are individual reeds and not in a box, they both had the paper reed holder, but each came in a separate plastic wrapper which wasn't so good if they want to move away from plastic, so they need to find better packaging for individual reeds. They played just as well as normal Reserve reeds do. I just had to do slight adjustments to one reed to get it to play better it was slightly unbalanced.
The ones in the box also come with plastic wrappers 🤦🏻
This is excellent news and a great video to promote the facts Dan. Interesting to note that what is now to be considered 'progress' such as the presentation and storage of reeds in cardboard was standard practice certainly in the 80s when I started playing. I forget now when the switch over to pretty much everything being presented in a plastic sleeve started ??? Mid 90s?