Nadir i feel your pain. I am playing lead tenor in my school and i had to adjust to soprano, as they are in the same key and lead tenor parts requires me to play soprano and clarinet as well as tenor. Luckily for me, i am conveniently based in the hot spot for jazz in the world so i went to my favorite and long time sax dealer and got a vintage buescher true tone soprano for a steal. However there are many things to playing soprano that will make an enourmous difference even on a crappy horn. First of all, I don't know what kind of mouthpiece you have for it but i strongly suggest if you can find them the S80 D* (Very similar to C* but arguably the best soprano mouthpiece out there) They are not expensive just really hard to find, but since i have an amazing dealer it wasn't bad at all. I would also reccommend using CLARINET REEDS and a harder size than u normally use. This will take some time to adjust to, but when you use clarinet reeds on a soprano mouthpiece it makes the most incredible difference in sound quality and often times even response. Hope this post helped - Zach