Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-08-14 05:18
I have the same reaction to your question as Paul, but from a slightly different perspective. I generally only switch to a new mouthpiece if I feel immediately comfortable playing on it. It shouldn't keep me from doing anything that I could easily do on the old one. But, once having switched to a new mouthpiece, I think if it's really a good switch, I discover things over time that I can (it allows me to) do better with the new mouthpiece than I could with the old. In that sense, I'm not so much getting used to it as it is freeing me to do more than I could before.
Your screeches, though, should not be a result of the mouthpiece change. You may not be using the best reed match with it. Do the Royals and the Signature tend to screech equally often, or is one more stable than the other? I find that Legeres in general and, maybe, Signatures in particular don't work as well for me on some mouthpieces as they do on others. And, I don't find that Legeres respond the same way good cane reeds do - the differences *do* demand a certain amount of adjustment on my part. So maybe if you're switching back and forth, you might be having trouble getting used to the different reeds on the HS*, not to the mouthpiece itself. Maybe try only using a Legere or Royals for awhile and see what happens.
If the HS* doesn't feel easy to play, you may need to change reed strengths, which gets into a fair amount of experimenting.
Karl
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