Yamaha Venova Soprano Wind Instrument

Follow the loops in this pocket of plumbing and you end up playing a tune.

The white tube takes several detours before it reaches the bell. Those branches are how the Venova makes a small wind instrument respond to a saxophone reed. Your fingers cover open holes much as they would on a recorder, while your breath has a reed to set buzzing.

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WHY IT CAUGHT OUR EYE

You can trace part of the acoustics with your finger. What looks like decoration is the reason Yamaha could fold that sound into such a small instrument.

BEFORE YOU BUY

This is the white soprano model with its fitted case. It takes a soprano saxophone reed, so getting the first clean note takes a different mouth position from blowing into a recorder.

White soprano YVS-100 in C with hard case. Yamaha also makes larger alto and tenor Venovas.