Author: beantown_Bb
Date: 2009-10-02 15:35
I am no pro player, so I am not going to address that angle.
I *am* however, a former E11 owner, and I had a horrible time with mine. I believe a fair number of them are just plain lemons from what I can tell. Mine was so sharp it was unbelievable. I already use what many consider to be one of the lowest tuning mouthpieces (M13Lyre), I used a longer barrel, and I was still needing to pull out an ABSURD amount and adjust embouchure to a crazy degree to even TRY to be in tune.
I am sure what some of the others have said about improving breath support and tongue position, etc., would help, but that is awfully hard to do after playing for (in my case) 20 years on a clarinet where the tuning was excellent with the comfortable embouchure and good breath support. For me it was like need to train my body to do the WRONG thing instead of the right thing. That's how serious it was. To this end, I agree with whoever said either you and the horn click and work well in your group, or you don't (with some margin for being able to compensate). Me + E11 = don't click. Understatement of the year.
I finally got my Evette Master Model that was in very rough shape back into working order (the same horn I played for those previouslt mentioned 20 years), and all is well in the universe. I can play comfortably, and I have to kind of laugh when I find myself wincing before certain notes because I have grown conditioned to fear them over the past 2 years from my horrible experience with the E11.
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