Venova

The Venova is a single-reed musical instrument, currently produced by the Yamaha Corporation. The original (soprano) model, the YVS-100, was released in 2017, the alto model, the YVS-120, was released in 2019, and the tenor model, the YVS-140, was released in 2021. Yamaha markets the Venova as a "casual wind instrument".

The Venova features a predominantly cylindrical bore, but is distinguished by its branched-pipe structure near the mouthpiece of the instrument. This serves to approximate the acoustic qualities of an instrument with a conical bore, such as a saxophone. In particular, the Venova overblows at the octave, rather than the twelfth as does a conventional cylindrical reed instrument such as a chalumeau or clarinet.