Yes Zack That's true. The same mouthpiece and reed as a soprano saxophone. You could literally swap out this mouthpiece with a nicer saxophone mouthpiece
@@MusicalKinetics i literally just bought through online steel soprano sax mouthpiece just to try to make the sound more vary, hope the result will be the way i expected lulz
Naaaaah, don't block the hole. The reason the hole is there is because the Venova's tube has the same width all along its length, like a recorder. A saxophone has a more conical profile, wide at the far end, and this affects the sound timbre. However, some bright egg at Yamaha did the math and said that, if you make that stem come out the front of the Venova, the timbre profile changes to a more saxophone sound without actually widening the tube at the far end. A small second tube coming out past the mouthpiece will achieve the same saxophony effect. Although the sound is very high-pitched and so the Venova is sort of its own sound; you'll never get it to sound quite like a sax. But keep experimenting with other gadgets to stick there, maybe a tube which splits in two? Experiment!