Holding mouthpiece in place.

[oldsaxman2004]

I there anything a person can get to keep the mouthpiece from sliding in on the cork once you have tuned. When I use a tuner to tune my saxophone the mouth piece is about have way up the cork and it keeps slide further on the cork and thus I can't keep it in tune.

[Mike Ruhl]

Sounds like maybe your neck cork has become compressed. The quick-n-dirty fix is to wrap a slip of paper around it, then push your mpc on over that. A slightly better solution is to wrap it once or twice around with plumbers' teflon tape. The best solution is to have the neck cork replaced with new cork.

[Bill Mecca]

You can also hold the neck cork over a steaming teapot, etc that wil swell it back up nicely, put on some cokr grease and you should be good to go.

[SilverNeck20]

Another trick is to moisten the cork and rotate a lighter/match around it to get it to expand............try not to burn the cork.

Never tried the teapot thing...........steam........makes sense and probably safer than my method, but I doubt you'll be able to do it on a gig.

[oldsaxman2004]

Thanks guys for your quick reply I will try that.

[Mike Ruhl]

You can also hold the neck cork over a steaming teapot, etc that wil swell it back up nicely, put on some cokr grease and you should be good to go.I forgot about this. Try this first.

[CircaRevival]

I had this problem and did the old wrap the cork around with a piece of paper. It worked for about three months and I just ended up taking it in to get my cork replaced.

Cheers,
CR

[Sigmund451]

A hot hair dryer or heat gun on low works great too.