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The Premium tube cane is hand picked and selected for consistency of color and straightness of grain by our staff, whereas standard tube cane is only sorted based on length and diameter.
There is no difference between Professional and Standard reeds in terms of materials used. However, professional reeds are selected as some reeds have better intonation, articulation, tone and finishing etc. The reeds are not intentionally made this way. When we make them, some of them simply turn out better than others.
The only difference between the "German" and "French" templates is that there is a much more gradual step in the scrape from the "heart" of the reed down to the tip on the French template. When you look carefully at reeds made from each of the two templates and compare them, it will look as if the German template reed has a much more clearly defined tip area. Both the "German" and "French" scrapes would work on all oboes.
The centre to side ratio is the difference in thickness measurement between the centre of the cane compared to the side of the cane at the time the cane is gouged, before it is shaped and tied on and finished scraping. The difference in behaviour of two reeds made identically but from the two different C/S ratios, is that the 0.18mm gouged reeds generally blow more freely and have less strong openings when compared with a reed gouged at 0.15. The resulting tone or timbre of the reed made from cane gouged at 0.18 is often less "thick" or "heavy" sounding than the 0.15.
The reeds shaped dry and wet are actually shaped on the same shaping tool. The difference is that if the cane is soaked before shaping, it comes off the shaper narrower after it has dried than when it is shaped dry. Therefore, shaped wet cane has a tendency to be higher pitch than shaped dry on the finished reed. Cane shaped dry has a “fuller” tone and is more vibrant due to the greater surface area of the reed.
We have made a cane hardness tester that we use test and sort all of our gouged and gouged & shaped cane. The hardness tester criterion follows:
8-10 Hard， 11-12 medium， 13-14 moderate， 15 above / defective
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