Utilizing traditional hand tools and custom-made equipment in tandem, Tiger Reeds professional and student reeds are entirely handmade and hand-assembled.

Available finishes:

• Soft finished: Most flexible, least resistant. Best for lower-octave playing (2nd bsn/2nd oboe).

• Regular finished: “The perfect one-size-fits-all reed”, most players; flexible, wide dynamic range, resonant. Most popular strength. Flexible and comfortably resistant.

• Hard finished: Most resistant. Best for exceptionally strong players, very flexible/bright instruments, or for a 'finished' reed with cane left to remove. (Don’t use this to fix a biting problem – this will make it worse! Seek expert guidance.)

• Mostly-finished: Blank with cut tip and first scrape, featuring Tiger Reeds long-lasting cane and fine blank assembly process. Finish to your specs.

• Blank: Tied/wired reed blank, no scraping. Economic and efficient.