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I thought that I bought a Xaphoon, but after watching your vid I realised I bought a Venova, bummer!

This is the video i needed

Thanks, just what I was looking for.

lol they are all horrible buy a 50 buck clarinet from the pawn shop.

Xaphoon sounds like a clarinet, not a sax. Venova sounds like a sax like you're having trouble playing. Minisax trouble playing and a clarinet.

Hi, Nice review of all three instruments. Have a quick question. My daughter plays traditional recorder very good, but learnt to play as left-handed player ie right hand on top left on bottom. I see u play the same. Where did you get your Venova from, as I see it's set up for a lefty player. I'd like to buy for my daughter. But can't find anywhere on Internet the Venova that's made for left handed finger player. Any help much appreciated.

This is a helpful video. The thing with the Xaphoon is, the guy put many, many years into making them, out of bamboo for quite a lot of that time and then he wanted to make a mass-produced one out of plastic but (he at least used to have the whole saga of this process online) it had to be accurately molded, durable, stable, etc. In other words, a lot better quality than, say, a plastic soap dish. I have two "I wonders" about the Xaphoon. One is, I have small hands and I keep hearing the top two holes are a real stretch. Secondly, I keep hearing about the mouthpiece being, well, a real mouthful. I don't think I'm going to answer these questions without just going on ahead and buying a xaphoon. As for the Ammoon/Chinese mini-sax, if you just wanna make some noise, it looks great for that. As for the Venova, what the hell was someone thinking about when they designed that monster? Why in hell did Yamaha invest the time to make a horrible thing like that when with a lot less research they could have worked on making a good plastic shakuhachi, on a par with their excellent plastic recorders? Shakuhachi is not a hugely popular instrument and I still bet it would outsell the Venova 10 to 1.

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The Chinese "El Cheapo" xaphoon sounds like a goose being beheaded with a dull butterknife! Awful! And the other two I would not waste a token of Monopoly money on. Give me the chameleau any day!

You need to play all 3 decently to do a review like this.

my xaphoon sounds like your yellow instrument, loud and horrible, affraid to not disturb neighbours

Very good comparison video! I can stop considering the Venova. That sound ain’t down my alley - especially compared to the genuine Xaphoon 🎵🎶🎵

Had a minisax, but couldn't get anything useful on it. So I sent it back and bought a Maui Xaphoon, and after a frustrating time I managed to get a sound that wasn't too horrible. I'd recommend the Maui and it's sounding a little better every day.

Xaphoon is the best, hands down

Should Xaphoon also be cleaned ? Or dosent need to 😊 thanks

The Venova thing at least sounds like a sax. I wonder they have a tenor version or something.

Thanks for the vid.

I see the mustang in the background, how does it compare to the DGW....My DGW short scale will be arriving next week, I'm very curious.

The Chinese one do have a name called little sax, but it is really difficult to control.

Thanks mate for the review

I kinda lowkey love how dirty that venovo sounds, you could really play some sultry Coltrane on that thing no cap

Can any of them do more than one octave?

I have a Venova, bought it 2 weeks ago. It was hard to get a mellow sound in the beginning, then I learned how to hydrate the reed . But then I saw the Xaphoon while looking for lessons, and just ordered one. Anyway, I have to play them as breathing exercises, I lost part of my breath after getting COVID.

Thank you Stuart for your presentation. I hope in the next one, you could include the Hichiriko created by Kouhei in Japan and the bambbo saxophone created by Erik "the flutemaker" in Florida .

Would you happen to know where I can get reeds for the mini (little) sax? The black one you said was under $40?

thx, I will pick up Xaphoon

The Venova is the superior instrument. You would benefit greatly from some flute ,clarinet ,or sax lessons even on You Tube here .You shouldn’t be getting so much spit in the chamber just from a few minutes . Learning the proper use of a mouthpiece will greatly benefit your results .Take your time just take mental notes while you need to while you play guitar .Do the prep a little a few minutes a day at first do the simplest lessons .Like when you first started guitar it was irritating right ..but we get over it . It can be more irritating to not progress .Depends on what project or song you want it for .Good luck rock on 🤘🏻

I get where you are coming from ,because I have the same enthusiasm for taking up interesting sounding instruments.It doesn’t seem like you are doing any half hole finger positions. On many woodwinds that’s where the notes you are missing are located . I get where you are coming from ,but any serious woodwind player would be kinda irritated by this video 😂 .I personally think the Zaphoon sounds kinda like a kazoo with holes -either the wrong holes ,not enough or you aren’t doing the half hole fingering on one or more of the notes .Which can be awkward at first but it’s woodwind 101 .Or just having a hole on the back that alternates with the very furthest finger hole(s) out can take care of that short of octave problem.

So they're basically a recorder with a reed? They sound like a raspy recorder.

спапибо большое на трость от тенора саксофона и внизу он звучит как тенор а наверху как кларнет значит и постановка амбюшуроа будет разная у других инструментов трость от альт саксофона и постановка не меняеться и легче следить за интонацией звука

Thanks to your advice, I decided to have Maui Xaphoon! But I haven't had any experience trying reed instrument yet; wouldn't it that much difficult to make "sounds" with Maui xaphoon for beginners?

Did you try the Woobasax?;)

This is practically an unpacking video for non reed/non flute players. A bit like reviewing a guitar or piano with gloves on - it does no justice to the instrument.

Огромное спасибо за ваше мнение об этих инструментах. Я долго думал что именно купить. Теперь я принял решение. Thanks!

Músicos ruins sempre colocam a culpa no instrumento!!!!

I got the Alto venova and its much nicer sounding. I was going to get the soprano but I read that the Alto was.just better over all

Sorry to correct you, but a proper clarinet cloth is better, the have a weight on a cord, and you pull it through once. They are handy, and fit in your pocket book!

İ know that a xaphoon (Maui) can produce a clarinet and a sax sounds. İ want to take this instrument. There is one more instrument which İ am interested in: a chalumeau (Comet in resine in C or B°). İ have listened to chalumeau sound and they are different, some of them sound like clarinet, some of them like a sax.. Should İ take also a chalumeau or just one xaphoon with its 2 sounds is enough?

I was a Reed major these sound like a kazoo

The minisax sounded horrible to me;it brings back bad memories of an out of tune baritone sax I owned some thirty years ago.

There are even some superior to those? Something that sound more as a sax and less as a clarinet? thanx

glad to hear that I have already made the right choice. I'm expecting my xaphoon in a week or so :-)

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Thanks!!! Iam gonna buy a Maui Xaphoon.

Too much sax and violins on UA-cam.

Is that the Xaphoon Pocket Sax?

Back in the day, did you ever own an old Car called 'Christine'?

Get the company to pay you NOT to try their minisax instruments

That's my dad

"reeds' need to be premoistened before you can play them well. Some people will dip them in water before mounting them on the mouthpiece. Playing a reed isn't like a guitar, you have to "warm up" the instrument before you can really play it. Where as a guitar, warming up is really a condition of the artist, excluding any tuning being done. Try swapping mouth pieces around? Put your Xaphoon mouth piece on a Vanova? Maybe you just play better with that strange mouthpiece for some reason?