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We use the most stringent cane selection and production procedures using the most advanced equipment available.

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All tube cane is personally selected. We choose it. We don't wait to be sent what others have chosen not to take.
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Cane sorts and vintages are not mixed.
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Although we do our best to deliver you great looking cane, we differ from other producers in the fact that we do not wash our cane. Many manufacturers wash tube cane to look good, but many of the vital fibres in the cane are lost, drastically reducing the life length of your reed.
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Cane is split and sorted by diameter.
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Cane is pre gouged with the Hörtnagel gouging machine and a final gouge is made with the Kunibert Michel machine.

All machines are regularly adjusted and tested to ensure an even gouge from tip to tip of the cane.
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All gouge thickness are categorised in groups with differences of no more than 0.2mm, giving you maximum consistency with your gouge. All our dial micrometers are by the Japanese firm Mitutoyo.
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cane shapingCane is shaped using a Hörtnagel shaping machine. See chart below for current shapes available.

The Hörtnagel machine is superior in quality to hand shaper tips in the fact that the gouged cane sits flat, not folded, and the angle of the blade is set ensuring perfectly even sides.

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The shaped cane is marked at the centre to enable easy folding before binding.
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Cane is separated by hardness/density. Very hard, hard, medium, soft. (See Cane page for further information).
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We use hardness testers supplied by Reeds 'n Stuff.

Buy Cane Online

See our Cane page for details of our prices and full list of instruments.

The Following Shapes are Currently Available:
Shape No.
Instrument
Tip   
10mm
20mm
30mm
End
(40mm for EH)
50 mm
Overall Length
 --- Musette 6.50 6.40 6.00 4.45 3.00 - 74mm
 H9 Oboe 6.80 6.70 6.00 4.45 3.00 - 77mm
 H37 Oboe 6.80 6.75 6.20 4.40 3.10 - 75mm
 H57 Oboe 6.90 6.70 5.90 4.50 3.30 - 76mm
 H99 Oboe 7.00 6.90 6.10 4.50 3.60 - 76mm
 H5 Oboe 7.00 6.90 6.20 4.70 3.20 - 76mm
 H26 Oboe 7.00 7.00 6.30 4.80 3.20 - 77mm
 H70 Oboe 7.00 6.90 6.10 4.60 3.00 - 76mm
 H40 Oboe 7.10 7.05 6.20 4.65 3.30 - 75mm
 H79 Oboe 7.20 7.10 6.30 4.70 3.20   76mm
 H56 Oboe 7.30 7.20 6.40 4.80 3.10 - 75mm
 H17 Oboe 7.30 7.20 6.50 4.90 3.40 - 76mm
 H93 Oboe 6.85 6.75 6.15 5     76mm
 H124 Baroque Oboe 8.60 8.10 6.80 5.20 4.00 - 74mm
 H77 Baroque Oboe 8.80 8.50 7.50 5.30 5.00   75mm
 H82 Baroque Oboe 8.60 8.40 7.40 4.60 3.40   81mm
 H13 Classical Oboe 7.90 7.80 7.70 6.20 4.30 3.40 93mm
 H116 Classical Oboe 8.10 8.00 7.60 6.70 4.90 3.60 92mm
 H59 Classical Oboe 8.35 8.30 7.60 6.60 5.00 3.90 93mm
 H122 Classical Oboe 8.50 8.35 7.70 6.50 4.75 3.70 93mm
 HW121 Vienna Oboe 7.10 6.85 6.20 5.40 4.60 4.00 93mm
 HW57 Vienna Oboe 7.50 7.50 7.15 6.40 5.50 5.00 93mm
 H33 Ob d'Amore 7.30 7.20 6.20 5.00 3.20 - 75mm
 H32 Ob d'Amore 7.40 7.30 6.80 5.30 3.60 - 75mm
 H31 Ob d'Amore 7.50 7.20 6.50 4.70 3.40 - 78mm
 H97 Ob d'Amore 7.55 7.50 6.95 5.50 3.70 - 75mm
 H13 E.Horn 7.90 7.80 7.70 6.20 4.30 3.40 93mm
 H116 E.Horn 8.10 8.00 7.60 6.70 4.90 3.60 92mm
 H59 E.Horn 8.35 8.30 7.60 6.60 5.00 3.90 93mm
 H122 E.Horn 8.50 8.35 7.70 6.50 4.75 3.70 93mm
 H29 E.Horn 7.80 7.70 7.10 5.30 3.20   85mm
 H23 E.Horn 7.90 7.80 7.20 5.60 3.60   82mm
 H54 E.Horn 7.80 7.80 7.30 5.90 4.10   87mm
 HW59 Vienna E. Horn 7.90 7.80 7.10 6.10 5.00 4.30 93mm
 HW4 Vienna E. Horn 8.10 7.60 7.00 6.05 5.00 4.70 93mm
 HFBO Baritone Oboe 9.00 8.80 8.40 7.40 5.40 4.50 94mm

* Any other shapes can be tailored to your specifications *
cane shapes


If you are not familiar with the Hörtnagel shapes, Click here for a shaper comparison list. This list will show you the equivalent Hörtnagel shape to many other shape manufacturers. If your shape does not appear on our list, feel free to contact us and we will try and find out which of our shapes is closest to yours.


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