Saxophones One-handed soprano sax?

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Looking for into on soprano saxophones playable with one hand

whisperthirteen

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I’ve done some looking around on the Internet about this, but haven’t been able to find any info about one-handed soprano saxophones.

Does anyone make them or play one, by any chance?
 
Also see our previous discussion:

 
Also see our previous discussion:

Thanks for that. I’m happy about the tenor one-handed, but I know a soprano saxophonist who is recovering from health issues involving the use of one hand. I’d be thrilled to be able to find a soprano alternative for a temporarily (hopefully) one-hand player who really misses playing.
 
You're not going to find anything pre-existing; it'll have to be heavily customized from an existing horn.

I'd start with a curved soprano on a neck strap. this way either hand will have all four of the fingers fully avaiable and the thumb will be able to do a certain amount. There's no way to hold a straight soprano with the LH only and it's not easy with RH only.

Then basically additional linkages and key touches have to be added to enable the various notes. Some notes (bell notes and maybe palm) will probably have to be forgone.

If you have the left hand working, for example, you can use these existing fingerings: High F and high E with front F key as normal, Eb, D with usual palm keys, C# C and B as normal, Bb with bis (roll on and off), A G# G as normal. Now convert the low C# key to F#, low B key to F, low Bb key to E; then palm keys without octave key give you Eb and D, then same as above, down to low E. So with just adding a few linkages you get high F to low E. For the RH it'd be different but similar.
 

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