A supporting system is provided on a saxophone for offering assistance to
the player, and includes pressure sensors monitoring the touch pieces of
the keys, power assisting units equipped with torque motors provided for
the keys and a controller connected to the pressure sensors and the power
assisting units; a conversion table for depressed touch pieces and
another conversion table for released touch pieces are prepared in the
controller, and different relations between the finger force and the
amount of current to be supplied to the torque motor are respectively
defined in the conversion tables, respectively; the amount of current to
be supplied is read out from the conversion tables depending upon the
increase and decrease of finger force so that the player quickly closes
the tone whole with the padded cup without curious key touch.