Yaaayyyyy - a new toy. I'm really in need of something new on the musical front. It hasn't been a year with a lot of musical gigs. I missed the first four gigs because I was sick, and because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I've missed additional six gigs. To be honest, it was not difficult to convince me that I needed to spoil myself - just a little bit :-)

Last year I purchased my first wind synthesizer, which was a Roland Aerophone AE-10. I'm very satisfied with it, and I love the trumpet sound, but I would like it better if the keys were placed better.

A new wind synthesizer has come to the market. This wind synthesizer is produced by Yamaha and is meant as an alternative to a saxophone. It has a lot of different saxophone sounds, but it doesn't have a lot of other sounds in it. You won't find a trumpet a clarinet sound.

The keys are more similar to a saxophone than the Aerophone. The mouthpiece is also a 'real' saxophone mouthpiece, and it is sensitive to how hard you blow. It doesn't respond to pressure on the reed as the Aerophone does. The price for both instruments is similar, but the audience is different.

I'm looking forward to becoming more familiar with the Yamaha because, as with all instruments, you have to practice to be good at playing on it.