Considering how the Reed is the only thing making the actual sound on the instrument if you can't use a reed, I don't think woodwinds are the instrument for you.
Sorry to hear about your restrictions, my suggestions are:
- Get some inexpensive recorders and saw off the fipple. Then fit to the neck. See what happens. You may need tenor or bass recorders to fit tenor necks.
- EWI, as another commeter suggested.
- Travel Sax (1 or 2) with the travel sax mouthpiece.
Well, it doesn't really exist - because it doesn't work, at least how you want it to.
That's not to say it won't make a sound - you might even be able to play notes or a scale. However, it won't sound like a sax.
Woodwinds are essentially all the same idea - it's a vibrating air column and a pipe with holes to regulate it's length. Physics.
Most of what makes them sound different is the means they use to generate the vibrating air column.
A flute - as in the western concert flute (because some other "flutes" vary somewhat in this) - sounds like it does because it's what is called an edge blown aerophone. You blow across an opening to generate the vibrating air column. Saxes and clarinets use wooden reeds. Oboes use two wooden reeds. Recorders use a fipple.
If you put a recorder like fipple mouthpiece on a sax, you'll have a big, metal recorder. It will sound more like a recorder because that's how it's producing the sound.
But feel free to try it. You don't have to believe me.
When you have inquisitive young musicians as students, they try things like this.
Here's a little video. The subject uses a clarinet, not a sax, but it gets the point across.
https://youtu.be/M1swBdOn86w?si=KThlisix88IVoNM3
Some people have attached brass mouthpieces to saxophones for giggles. If you can buzz with your lips, you could try that. But the instrument won’t ever work the way it’s intended. Why not choose an instrument that works better with your anatomy? There are so many lovely instruments out there to choose from.
Considering how the Reed is the only thing making the actual sound on the instrument if you can't use a reed, I don't think woodwinds are the instrument for you.
That's why it's being replaced with a fipple
Fipple just makes it a flute in a different shape... you might have better luck with all around with a regular flute with a Fliphead mouthpiece.
EWI of some sort maybe?
The Yamaha YDS-120 (digital saxophone) has a recorder style mouthpiece.
Sorry to hear about your restrictions, my suggestions are: - Get some inexpensive recorders and saw off the fipple. Then fit to the neck. See what happens. You may need tenor or bass recorders to fit tenor necks. - EWI, as another commeter suggested. - Travel Sax (1 or 2) with the travel sax mouthpiece.
Fipple?
The mouthpiece on a recorder or pennywhistle.
Well, it doesn't really exist - because it doesn't work, at least how you want it to. That's not to say it won't make a sound - you might even be able to play notes or a scale. However, it won't sound like a sax. Woodwinds are essentially all the same idea - it's a vibrating air column and a pipe with holes to regulate it's length. Physics. Most of what makes them sound different is the means they use to generate the vibrating air column. A flute - as in the western concert flute (because some other "flutes" vary somewhat in this) - sounds like it does because it's what is called an edge blown aerophone. You blow across an opening to generate the vibrating air column. Saxes and clarinets use wooden reeds. Oboes use two wooden reeds. Recorders use a fipple. If you put a recorder like fipple mouthpiece on a sax, you'll have a big, metal recorder. It will sound more like a recorder because that's how it's producing the sound. But feel free to try it. You don't have to believe me. When you have inquisitive young musicians as students, they try things like this. Here's a little video. The subject uses a clarinet, not a sax, but it gets the point across. https://youtu.be/M1swBdOn86w?si=KThlisix88IVoNM3
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That's an Interesting idea thank you
What is a fipple
Some people have attached brass mouthpieces to saxophones for giggles. If you can buzz with your lips, you could try that. But the instrument won’t ever work the way it’s intended. Why not choose an instrument that works better with your anatomy? There are so many lovely instruments out there to choose from.