Yamaha YVS-100 Venova Casual Wind Instrument with Case, White

リード初心者。初日からほぼ毎日30分間位練習して、大分、外堀が埋まってきた実感があります。 しかし、まともな音はとても難しい。 発音の仕組みは、Saxと全く同じ。 毎回、クロマチックチューナーで音を確かめながらの練習です。 C音階（2オクターブ分）が、どの音もきれいに出せるには、もう少し掛かりそうです。 それだけに、自分の音を作るのは、進捗が止まる事ばかりですが、 とてもやりがいがある、時に、やんなっちゃう時もあるけど、 とてもたのしい楽器です、吹けば音の出る楽器（EWI等）では、これは体験出来ないことです。 シンプルだけど「音作り手作り感120％」の楽器です。 始めは、プラスチックの楽器が10,000円！高いんでないかい！と思いましたが・・ 始めて観たら・・もう、その価格以上の楽しみは体験できました。（(^_^)）

I'm impressed. This thing is the real deal as long as you know what you're buying. Just a few things to realize before you order. I played saxophone for decades. This is not a beginner instrument! While I was able to pick it up and play some songs in C right away without even looking at fingering charts and make some good sound out of the thing, I can tell that it will take some work to make really beautiful music out of this thing. Playing sharps and flats is difficult and definitely requires some on the fly embouchure adjustment to get those half steps in tune. And really you only have 2 octaves to play with. Many easy sheet music you find online will drop down to a low B or something, in which case you need to get creative and jump an octave or something. Also, the included synthetic reed requires a really hard blow and makes the Venova sound and feel like a cheap clarinet. I took the advice of others and ordered some Rico 2 clarinet reeds. Huge difference. With the clarinet reeds, it really sounds like a soprano sax. Beautiful warm tone both low and high notes, and much finer tone control become quickly apparent when switching to the natural reed. I doubt I'll be trying the synthetic reed again. I haven't played anything for nearly a decade and haven't owned a sax for at least as long. What I like about this over a sax is how durable, light weight, and easy it is to use and care for. It really is a very casual instrument, but one that can produce incredible sound in the right hands. The Venova has allowed me to easily fit music back into my life again without breaking the bank or being bothered by setup and breakdown time, maintenance, etc. Just pop open the case and play. Would I recommend this as a beginner learning instrument for an adult or child? Maybe for an adult, but definitely not for a child. Better off with a clarinet or alto sax or something a little easier to make a sound out of. I gave my wife and my daughter a quick lesson and neither could make the Venova do anything other than honk like a goose. But for an intermediate sax or clarinet player, for less than the cost of a decent mouth piece the Venova offers a lot of fun and a new challenge in a quality portable package.

Bought the YVS-120 for its saxophone sound and durability/portability claims. Most spend my time practicing at work in a extremely dirty environment so being able to just spray it down with a hose and not worry is great for me. Never tried the stock reed. Everyone says its too stiff so I picked up a Legere #2.5 Reed and dont really have any trouble playing it. I'm completely new to wind instruments and for the first few days practice was just me trying to figure out how to play notes. Which may put some people off of this. As this defiantly isn't a pick-up and start playing for people who've never used a reed instrument before. There isn't really that much for music out there thats transcribed for it either so unless you can learn by ear or transcribe your own you may not want this instrument until its popularity increases and people produce more readily avalible music thats specific for the venova.

This is good instrument for transition from a recorder to a saxophone. The fingering is similar to a recorder, the mouth piece and the sound is more like a saxophone.

Me gusto el venova soprano, para mi es una novedad y aprende uno a tener buena embocadura para tocar otros instrumentos como el saxofon o clarinete , excelente instrumento!