Why the OCGenie and SopSaxGenie was invented

Being a music enthusiast, the inventor of the Oboe/Clarinet Genie (OCGenie) and Straight Soprano Saxophone Genie (SopSaxGenie) has read stories of professionals and amateurs having to quit playing the Oboe, Clarinet, Oboe d'Amore, Basset Clarinet, English Horn or Straight Soprano Saxophone because of the unbearable pain in their right thumb or right elbow. He has also observed with empathy, grade and high school students playing the clarinet with their instrument's bell held tightly and awkwardly between their knees. Nothing on the market could help relieve the weight on their thumb-rest.

The inventor himself experienced pain learning to play the Oboe and Clarinet. After years of trying and testing, he arrived at this final form of the OCGenie that has been proven to really work.

An OCGenie or SopSaxGenie works like a player's discreet assistant. Diligently and faithfully, it will adjust itself at every instant, relieving as much weight as possible from your thumb-rest and accommodating all your expressive movements with the music. It will make it easy for you to control your instrument as you have learned previously, and to avoid any unnatural movements that can jam the reed into your lips or teeth.

You do not need to disengage the OCGenie or SopSaxGenie from your instrument between pieces or movements of music. Just pull your instrument naturally to rest on your knee, and OCGenie or SopSaxGenie will oblige. You can fully set up the OCGenie or SopSaxGenie with your instrument and go on stage elegantly in your natural way, ready to play without further awkward preparation. When you initiate your playing position, the cord of the OCGenie or SopSaxGenie will automatically adjust to the appropriate length. It can extend up to 34 inches, giving you the freedom to hold the instrument in any playing or rest position. The one-size-fits-all design works for all age groups with no extra adjustments.

The OCGenie will come to your service complete with two thumb-rest ring attachments to make two of your instruments ready to be played in a few minutes.

The Straight Soprano Saxophone players also have the same kind of weight pain problem as the Oboe and Clarinet players; even worse. A typical Sop Sax is twice as heavy as an Oboe or Clarinet.

We are now offering the SopSaxGenie using the same inventive technology as the OCGenie to provide for the first time, a complete heart-felt physical relief on the thumb-rest for the SopSax players.