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I've had the same experience with mouthpieces -- both in terms of using a smaller piece to get a note and then going back to the larger one, and using a larger piece to get the (low) note and then going back to the smaller one. And this across tubas, euphs, and trombones. Or sometimes just a DIFFERENT mouthpiece, even of roughly the same size.
With mouthpieces, it's easier to speculate rationally about what the cause of such differences is. But I think that in general any small (even perhaps consciously imperceptible) difference in how the horn feels, vibrates, whatever, can make that kind of difference. In such cases it's usually a stretch to say that the change makes the HORN perform better, but ... whatever works. As I say, I've had the experience more than once and then gone back to the "old" mouthpiece because it was in fact a better choice and fit for me.
With mouthpieces, it's easier to speculate rationally about what the cause of such differences is. But I think that in general any small (even perhaps consciously imperceptible) difference in how the horn feels, vibrates, whatever, can make that kind of difference. In such cases it's usually a stretch to say that the change makes the HORN perform better, but ... whatever works. As I say, I've had the experience more than once and then gone back to the "old" mouthpiece because it was in fact a better choice and fit for me.
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