And sometimes I think makers are designing mouthpieces with certain reeds in mind. It makes it difficult to try and use something different because the shape of the tip is off or they might have designed the mouthpiece to be used with a softer or harder reed compared to what the person might have been playing previously.There was a thread a few months ago about reed finicky mouthpieces: https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showt...a-mpc-reed-friendly-versus-finicky-with-reeds
See comments about table flatness, length of lay and rail profile.