Harry Hartmann's Fibrerereed from HFC combines the best sound and play behaviour with durability that is 20 to 30 times higher than a wooden reed. For this purpose, the saxophone and clarinet reeds are characterised by excellent response, high strength, long-lasting hygiene and last but not least by exact reproducibility: even after years you get a Fiberreed with the same excellent properties.
A break-in time that you know from wooden leaves is no longer necessary. Fiberreed is 100% ready to play from the first sound. With the combination of high-tech materials and artistic empathy, a material with excellent sound properties was created. Its name: Hollow Fibre Foamresin Compound, Short HFC.
HFC replaces the conveyor channels of the cane wood with hollow fibres and the cell structure with foamable resins. This together with a balanced ratio of longitudinal to cross stiffness allows sound characteristics that not only come close to those of the natural cane (Arundo Donax) but surpass them in many ways as it could not be achieved by any other synthetic material.