What is a lefreQue?

06. March 2012 · 4 comments · Categories: For Sale, Videos

Well, according to the seller it’s a “sound bridge”. You can read about it here, and listen to the two clips below. Thoughts? Do you hear a difference? Is it worth $65 to $300?

Without:

With:

4 Comments

  1. Eefje
    March 7, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    I don’t hear any difference… Also I kind of don’t want any attachment-things on my oboe and want it to be natural… but maybe that’s a weird thing to think.

  2. Patty
    March 7, 2012 at 4:42 pm

    I couldn’t hear a difference either! I thought maybe it was just my ears, so that’s why I put it up. I can’t imagine adding this to my instrument.

  3. WestwindBob
    March 7, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    I heard a more open quality to the second, ‘with’ take. Listen carefully to the end of it, the cadenza and the coda. The ‘without’ take is sharper in pitch and choked sounding compared to the second take.

    Don’t know if this is deliberate or the high content of placibin (the active ingredient in placebos) in the gadget, but I’m sure I heard a difference.

    Try starting both and stopping first one then the other phrase by phrase to compare…

  4. Patty
    March 8, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    I did that, Bob … still didn’t hear the diff. Maybe it’s my computer. Maybe it’s my bad ears. Sigh.