Hello to all,
Still awaiting my new euph from ACB. It has only been about two weeks since ordering, but I'm not really known for being a paticularly patient person
When I purchased the "beater" Conn euphonium, I'm now playing, I also purchased the only new mouthpiece they had in stock - a 6.5AL. After playing about 2 months and reading along here on the forum about others having issues with mouthpieces, I decided to go for a deeper bore mouthpiece and bought a 51D piece. Now, having played the 51D for about a month, I'm not particularly satisfied with my tone again (have been playing lots of long tones to try to improve my intonation problems too)
I've tried to switch back to the 6.5AL, and actually think that it sounds better. I've also noticed that my endurance is not what I expected after this amount of time playing again.
To make a long story short, now I've ordered a 4AL piece to give that a try. I'm not sure where I'm going here, but feel like I'm falling into the pattern of developing a rather large collection of available mouthpieces, without becoming proficient with any particular one. I'm finding that renewing my passion for music is becoming an expensive proposition.
Thanks to all for any ideas that you may have.
Joe