April 23, 2004

Keys to Recovery

By PETER MONAGHAN

A stroke three years ago, when he was 37, left David Nabb paralyzed on his left side and unable to play the saxophone. But the music professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney resolved to keep playing the instrument that was not only his love but his livelihood.

He got together with a friend who is an instrument maker, Jeff Stelling, to make a saxophone that could be played using only one hand. "What makes it possible is the toggled keys that Jeff Stelling came up with," Mr.

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