Brass Straight Soprano Sax Saxophone Bb B Flat Woodwind Instrument

Word of advice, make sure you are committed or a talented natural before becoming involved in any instrument.

A good deal for the money, but it isn't going to play like a top of the line sax.

I will be buying more instruments made by this company.

It’s a great instrument right out of the box. Has everything you need and it’s all good quality. I fully recommend it. 5 stars

I play out regularly and my old soprano (a 1980's intermediate level Jupiter) needs a complete overhaul, and after watching John Metcalf's review on his Better Sax Youtube channel I thought it sounded good, and hoped this horn would be cheeper than a rebuild and be good enough, but I'm returning it. My main problem is the layout of the palm keys. I have XLarge hands and the right palm keys are too close to the horn, or too far away from the pad of my knuckles. Though it is common to add a caps to these palm keys, this would have been and extreme example to make it work. Also the high D palm key is in the wrong place, the key is closer to my thumb than the pad under the 1st finger knuckle. Maybe this placement works for small hands, or x-small hands. The sound is good. I played it with my Selmar CS80 mouthpiece and the horn played predictably. The pads sealed up good, very playable, a little leaky below low C, but this kind of leakiness happens and is easily fixable. This was the first time I have been able to compare a curved neck to a straight and I was surprised that the curved sounded a little stuffy. I would definitely only play the straight neck. I was impressed with the adjustment screws on almost all the keys, easy to adjust the pad height. The left pinky keys or table for the low notes was layed out well, felt good for my x-large hands. The case not good, too little molding to cradle the horn effectively and will allow the horn to move around and will contribute to problems if dropped. The mouthpiece came with a reed mounted, oops, someone forgot to throw that used reed away. There was another reed in the case. The biggest influence of the sound is in the mouthpiece and the player. John Metcalf makes it sound good, and I enjoyed my sound, but when you're playing you have to get around the horn, and I use my palm keys and I would have been frustrated. Keeping the key layout consistent with other horns is important, and this horn made the wrong compromises. This is a fine instrument for a small handed player, that sounds good, but its more than just sound, its about overall playability and I have to find another solution.