Adaptive Travel Sax
A super accessible musical instrument!
The Adaptive Travel Sax is an electronic instrument and has 3 pre-programmed fingerings: a regular saxophone fingering, a flute fingering, and a one-handed left or right fingering. The Adaptive Travel Sax is available for purchase at odiseimusic.com.
The Adaptive Travel Sax has been designed by Odisei Music in a collaboration with My Breath My Music Foundation. Our experience and knowledge of adaptive music instruments has enabled us to develop this revolutionary concept. The instrument is highly adaptable to the musician’s limitations. There are now two versions. The most recent version is called Adaptive Travel Sax 2. With an external (foot) switch, the instrument can be fully played with one hand.
The Travel Sax App can be used to set everything, such as the blowing sensitivity. The sax can be mounted on a tripod if necessary.
Tatum plays the right-handed Sax. With a footswitch she can swap between two notes for each key, i.e. the keys have a double function (G/D, A/E, B/F#, C/G).
The Sax can be purchased from Odisei Music. (A part of the cost will be donated to our foundation)
New version (September 2023): Adaptive Travel Sax 2
Download the Travel sax 2 app on your phone, iPad, Mac or PC (Apple Store & Google Play)
Click here for the general online manual.
In the app you can, for example, adjust which instrument you want to use, how hard you have to blow and in which key you play.
In the example below, a Tenor Sax in C is blowing at its lightest.
In the video below Ramon shows the new version. There are some great new features in the latest version. For example, the instrument has 3 presets. Regular saxophone fingering, flute fingering + one-handed left and one-handed right.
To enter activation mode, long press the 0 1 11 and 12 keys.
Once in activation mode, you need to briefly press 0 and 1 to switch between the different fingerings.
Then long press the 0 1 11 and 12 keys again.
The switch for one-handed playing is connected as in the pictures below. There are 2 versions of the Sax. The most recent version needs an intermediate piece where you choose the gold colored input.
Two free teaching methods
To make learning a song or piece of music as easy as possible, a simple method has been developed using numbers.
Here you will find songs for two-handed use.
Here are some appropriate songs for one-handed players.
In addition, you can also use a method that uses the flute musical notation Oost west fluit best (Jac Wiermans and Marloes Berden).
Odette Kolen-van de Korput has made a lesson book for one-handed players! You can download it here for free. Lesson book for one-handed playing of the Adaptive Travel Sax.
Extra informatie
This “Get started” video shows, among other things, how to carefully remove the Travel Sax from the box. The Adaptive Travel Sax is a beautiful but fragile instrument.
Fingering chart examples
Mode 1 – original sax fingering
Mode 2 Two-handed + one-handed Left
Mode 3 Right-handed
