I have an Akai ewi 4000s. It has a trumpet fingering setting, but you need treat the notes in a different fashion although the right hand uses the base the same as the lower octave on the trumpet, you keep the same fingering (ie 1 and 3 for D 1 and 12 for E 1 for F open for G 12 for A 2 for B etc. all the way through multiple octaves. That said it plays any patch so you could be playing a piano with the thing.

I had my practice interrupted by cancer treatments and so far my throat is too raw to resume. It's not terribly inexpensive and appears to be well made. Don't know if the store in Port Huron carries them or not. I favoured it over the Yami due to the trumpet fingering. I want the wife to learn it, so far no dice she wants to stick with the flute.


John Conley
Musica est vita