Hello Mark, sorry you had some health issues and a sore neck, the tenor sax has some weight to it and can hurt your neck i had similar problems with my tenor so i got a “saxophone harness” that distributes the weight to the shoulders equally i put up a link to ebay that shows the type of neck strap you might want to get, take a look.
I use it all the time and the sore neck is gone. Leo
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