Rieger Brass Reed Making Wire – Soft

Description

This brass reed making wire is what the manufacturer calls ‘soft’.  Soft baked wire offers a lot of flexibility and gives a high degree of finness to your reed making.  Soft baked wire reduces the restraining pressure or choke that harder wire has on the reed.  With less choking pressure, a soft wire increases the vibrations through the cane of the reed.   It is a flexible wire, and may break sooner than hard wire when under strong reed-making pressure.  Taking the time to understand the tolerance of the soft wire will give the reward of freely vibrating reeds and greater playing ease!

When the Sweet Reeds Team visited the Rieger factory recently,  we learned that many European reed makers are moving towards the soft baked wire for its flexibility and improved reed performance.