mouthpiece for vintage toneking

Thanks for answering me. ja sorry i was unclear, well if i practice blowing with only the neck i'm fine, its easy, the sound is good and i get a more or less good A. but as soon as the horn is attached i can't get the low notes to play very easily(goes right into altissimo), and when i finally get it i get squeeks and whistles halfway thru a scale. With the original mouthpiece i never had that problem. The only problem was that the tip opening was a bit large (at least i think) so i had a hard time and had to pinch hard with my mouth to make it play, but i never go those squeeks and whistles nor that problem of going off into altissimo which drives me crazy! I've used reeds vandoren 1 1/2 and 2's, doesn't seem to make that much difference. I will keep working on it with this Selmer mouthpiece and see if it will change but i just wondered if maybe it's not a good combination with this particular sax.

Wow thanks for the offer. I have an alt sax though. I think i just have to keep trying with this Selmer C* for now. Oh and i did notice a tiny number on the JK mouthpiece AFTER i bought the Selmer (!) it's a little 4, so i guess it's a mouthpiece #4. And both of these mouthpieces have a sort of "stuffy" sound and also gives me a "leaky" feeling like i'm trying to blow up a balloon with a little hole in it. Occassionally it sounds good and then i lose it again. I'll give it a few months and then maybe try something else. And yes the sax is really really nice thanks for the replies.

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Yes that had occured to me, the sax was revised a week ago (new pads etc.) and the guy told me that i was to play it and then come back in 3 weeks time and he would re-check everything because as the pads settle they could start to leak a bit and he likes to make sure it's good. Is that normal procedure? Anyway i thought it was not a good thing to just blame the horn so i will just keep playing for this 2 weeks and then see what he says.
I don't have a teacher yet because the block of courses i was going to follow don't start until october.... i'm not sure if that is enough time for me to totally screw myself up first.... but i find it hard to go and ask someone to just give me 3 lessons and then wave bye bye.

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I got my problem fixed!!! Well more or less, i figured out that what i was doing wrong, at least partly, was i wasn't pressing hard enough with my fingers. I guess it was ok at first but after a while i needed to press harder to seal the pads well and i wasn't doing that. I'm actually a guitar player and so i'm used to only using JUST enough power when pressing. Anyway i seen to be well underway now, now that i don't have that problem i don't mess around so much with the embouchure and it seems all to be working well. Lets hope i'll be ok until my course starts! Thanks for the support.

yes i also found the rubber to be of really exceptional quality. I bought a Selmer C* and have been playing with that since a while now and i've gotten used to it. But one of these days i will get the stock mp out again and see if i can play with it. But when you say that it has potential do you mean that i should have it reshaped??