General characteristics:
high-range reed, for both professional and amateur use, with high added craft value. It represents the classic a mano (handmade) reed of our tradition, whose substantial and distinctive contents, as well as the overall high quality and the artisanal nature, are fully and accurately proposed.

Timbre:
classic, concert standard timbre, with an intense, rich, defined, full, balanced flavour.

Crafting process:
All production phases of the reed parts, tongue and plate, are carried out and controlled with particular care. The reed tongue is realised from the strip (nastro) 120 mm wide of first quality harmonic steel, instead of the narrowest strip (nastrino) 8 mm wide: for this reason, unlike our previous a mano reeds, the section of the side edges of the square base of the reed tongue is not blue. Of course, the metallurgical and mechanical characteristics of the harmonic steel are the same, because the steel is the exactly the same: it is only the format that is different. We have chosen to use the 120 mm strip to give the a mano reed tongue, and consequently our a mano reeds, higher levels of quality than those achievable with the narrowest steel strip of 8 mm. The construction characteristics of our traditional a mano reeds, i.e. the reed tongue geometric dimensions and the note profiles, have not been modified in any way, but fully proposed and indeed also improved. The assembly steps are carried out with manual operations of high craftsmanship to ensure the best functional and acoustic result of the reed. They are 100% made in Italy.