Originally Posted By: Keith from Oz
I've worked with a few sax, clarinet & trumpet players over the years and I can't recall ever seeing them changing the reed/mouthpiece to attain a variance of tone. And I've never seen them bring more that one instrument to a gig, except if they play both tenor & alto saxes.
That reminds me of the funniest (to me) trumpet story I ever read, and it was told here by our own Mac. It's a long time ago and I hope I do it justice:

Mac plays trumpet and was first chair in an all-state orchestra. The part called for a C trumpet but he only had his Bb (that's not difficult for us if you know how to transpose). He played a solo. The conductor said, wouldn't that sound better on a C trumpet? So Mac took out his mouthpiece, passed the trumpet under his chair, put the mouthpiece back in, and played it again on the same horn. The conductor said, "Ah, much better".

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