Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2012-01-28 14:45
I'm having a little trouble understanding why this would happen just because of a new cork if it hasn't happened before. You didn't say why you needed a new cork - that might shed a little light.
If it were a new mouthpiece and you had no history of using it with this barrel, the binding tenon, as Chris suggests, would be my first guess. But in this case the mouthpiece tenon isn't likely to have changed (unless the repairman raised a chink somewhere along the end of the tenon when he cut the old cork off or while fitting the new one), so the socket would have had to suddenly get tighter.
But if *this* mouthpiece was going in and out of *this* barrel with no problems when the cork was loose (if that was the original problem with the cork), it seems as if the cork is the most likely problem. Maybe just too thick and the grease has stiffened enough to become mildly adhesive, or (harder to imagine) cement has somehow leeched out around an edge and stuck to the inside of the barrel.
If it *is* a bind between the tenon and the barrel socket, Chris's advice is on target after you've gotten the mouthpiece out. If the cork is too tight a fit, softening the cork grease by keeping the mp+barrel warm in your pocket might loosen things. Once you get it loose, take it back to the repair shop and let the tech assess the problem.
Karl
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