Author: John Peacock
Date: 2017-03-31 19:00
The only downside I can see is wobble. If you are in the unhappy situation of having to use a separate tuning barrel for each instrument, as most of us are, then the mouthpiece cork fit needs to be relatively slack in order to facilitate rapid changes. In that case, if the mouthpiece is pulled out at all then it's unlikely to stay where you put it under the pressure of energetic playing: it may just push back in, or wobble to one side or other unexpectedly.
This assumes that the aim is to do tuning tweaks in real time. If you just want to have the mouthpiece pulled out a fixed amount, then you can use a tuning ring on the mouthpiece to stabilise things. I did actually experiment with this, as I had a relatively short barrel and didn't want to pull that out so much (once again, for reasons of wobble). But I ended up deciding that the sound of the instrument was slightly less good with the extra space above the barrel than below. it might easily be the other way round for you, so worth a try if your aim is just to be permanently a bit lower in pitch.
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