It’s always fun to travel to festivals and gigs out of town, but it can make for unpredictable reeds. Planning ahead for multiple scenarios with a case full of gorgeous reeds is the ideal situation, but how realistic is it to make a reed in one city and expect it to be the same somewhere else? I’m back in Chicago now after spending 5 days in Nashville and am headed to Northern Wisconsin next week for the Midsummer Music Festival. My traveling reed plan for a week away is usually to leave with about 6 blanks, a few rough-scraped reeds, and a couple cushy old reeds (the old reeds give me some wiggle room to have a selection of reeds to play for a day or two while I make up a batch of reeds (around 5 or 6) when I arrive. You can never fully plan for what you’ll encounter in a new place, but I’ve found that traveling with a selection of new and old reeds and blanks to work with keeps my options open!
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Reeds while traveling
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How do you know if you'll like an oboe reed before you play it? You can't. When the rubber finally hits the road, it hardly matters if the reed is a great one, perfectly customized to your every desire, if it just plain doesn't work well for you. 
My name is Maryn Leister. I am a graduate of the Juilliard Pre-College Division and the Eastman School of Music, where I was a student of Richard Killmer. After graduating from college, I lived in Nashville, TN, then headed to Knoxville, TN, New York City, and finally Chicago...
