Okay, here are my guesses:
LefreQue: 2, 3, 4, 9, and 10
No LefreQue: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11
I was tempted to guess that #5 and #8 were LefreQued because #5 had strong emotion and color, while #8 had a lot of emotion and enjoyment. But they both were so lacking (relatively, of course) in the other categories that I decided they couldn’t be technologically enhanced with the Dutch Original Sound Solution.
#2 was strong in all four categories, while #3 really shined with both sound and emotion. #4 also had it all, but was particularly strong in the enjoyment arena. #9 really screamed color and enjoyment, while #10 epitomized what the combination of enhanced sound, emotion, and enjoyment should sound like.
#1, #6, #7, and #11 were not bad at all – they just did not exhibit the kind of revolutionary sound and playing enhancement I would expect from a 40 to 200 euro Sound Solution. They were “P-Lig good” (definitely a “pimped” sound), but just not a LefreQue-quality tone. The sound breaches were so obvious!
I’m anxious to hear Pete’s take on the following claim (from the LefreQue website): “You will notice the difference immediately: the sound will be more complete, the instrument will respond much quicker and the greater speed of the tone changes will be spectacular.” How marked were the differences in response and speed of the tone changes with your LefreQued set up, Pete? And perhaps more importantly, now that you have experienced this revolutionary development first hand, will you, like Emily Beynon, solo flutist of the Royal Concertgebouw, “never again play without LefreQue!”?