Zen Saxophone
Two saxophone sounds, free in your browser
Press a key to play online, one saxophone note at a time; slide between notes with a mouse or with your phone on its side, or type on your computer keyboard. Octave moves the thirteen keys to another register. Your first press turns the sound on; the keys play once it's ready.
How to play
A new key takes over from the note that is sounding, with no gap. With a mouse or pen, press and drag along the keys to slide from note to note. On a touch screen, slide along the keys with the phone on its side.
Lifting your finger or releasing the key that started the note ends it.
The thirteen keys cover one octave and its closing note. Octave down and Octave up move them to the next register.
While the song plays, an Octave button lights when a sounding note lies beyond the keys and a register in that direction shows it.
Choose Song to hear Pachelbel's Canon in D on the sound you picked, as Melody or as Classic VP with the piece's chords. You can press keys over it.
The song plays the piece's chords, so its notes can sound together. Your own presses sound one note at a time.
The two sounds
A little about each instrument, with sources.
Saxophone
The saxophone is a single-reed woodwind with a conical body, usually made of brass. Adolphe Sax, a Belgian instrument maker, designed it around 1840. An octave key raises the pitch of the lower notes by one octave.
Baritone
The baritone is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use, pitched in E♭. Modern baritones with low A and high F♯ keys range from C2 to A4.
Both sounds play here one note at a time, on the same thirteen keys. Play the same notes on each to hear the difference.
Before you play
About playing here, and what the full app adds.
An online virtual saxophone you can play in your browser, with nothing to install and no account. It has thirteen keys and two sounds. It doesn't model fingerings, breath or vibrato.
Your first press turns the sound on and plays nothing itself. If the sound is still loading, the keys say so, and your next presses play once it's ready. If it can't load, a Try again button appears.
No. Baritone Sax is ready here, with nothing to add. Choosing a sound here changes only this page, not the sound you saved in Zen Piano.
Your presses play as one instrument: a new key takes over from the note that is sounding, and releasing an older key changes nothing. Song is separate. It plays the piece's chords, so its notes can sound together.
They move the thirteen keys an octave lower or higher and end any note you are holding. Each sound has its own registers, so a button is off at the end of them.
Pachelbel's Canon in D, on the sound you picked. Melody plays the tune, and Classic VP adds the piece's chords. The song moves by whole octaves to suit the sound, and any note still out of its range is skipped, so a sound offers a version only when most of its notes fit.
Yes. Tap a key, or turn the phone on its side and slide a finger along the keys. With the phone upright, a vertical swipe on the keys scrolls the page after sounding the key you touched, and a swipe beside the keys scrolls it without a sound.
With a mouse or trackpad, the Keep playing link opens this song in Play. On a touch screen it opens Piano on the sound you picked here. Play also has 16 instruments and four ways to learn a song: Magic Play, Demo, Play Along and Practice.