Product: lefreQue
Innovation for brass and windFounded by Hans Kuijt
Feel the joy of a one-piece wind instrument with lefreQue innovation
Ever since Dutchman, Hans Kuijt, invented lefreQue back in 2008 and then founded his Company in 2011, it has been part of the Company vision that everyone deserves the chance to enjoy music-making in what he describes as
“a pure way”, so he has invested heavily in research and development to improve and expand the lefreQue product line.
Said Hans Kuijt: “Our Company goal is to enable all wind players to reach their best performance potential, so we focus heavily on making lefreQue products ever better, easier to use and more affordable. We are always motivated by achieving the ultimate sound for your wind instrument, which has included searching for better ways of attaching our all-important lefreQue sound-bridges to your instrument.”
The latest lefreQue development - the ‘Ultimate Elastic Band Series’ - offers a new system of attaching its sound bridges to wind instruments that leaves the instruments completely free to vibrate, thereby creating the acoustic characteristics of an instrument crafted from a single piece of metal, even though a wind instrument is constructed in sections of tube.
Hans explained: “Our latest breakthrough is the ultimate decoupled, connecting band, bringing us closer than ever to wind instruments that are absolutely free and behave as if crafted from single piece of metal.”
He added: “Testing recently developed products for wind instruments, aimed
at controlling and minimising vibrations in the instruments, motivated us to develop our products in the opposite direction. We are convinced that all instrument tubes must be as free as possible to pass on vibrations - proven even by the design of the first lefreQue sound bridge.”
The new lefreQue ‘Ultimate Elastic Band Series’ comprises an elastic core with a jacket of small sleeves that produces unequalled sound transmission, thereby further improving the performance of all lefreQue sound bridges.
Said Hans: “Overtones are more in tune, playing is easier and sound projection is ‘surround’. All frequencies can travel as freely as possible through the tube and over the joints, ensuring that fundamental and overtones travel with the same speed and stay in ‘sync’ with each other. Tight clamping or dampening of connections is undesirable and causes so-called frequency dependent resistances, as well as absorbs vital energy, which is why lefreQue has developed ways of optimising contact between the sound bridge and instrument body, whilst minimising the contact of the elastic band with the instrument body.”
lefreQue presented it new ‘Ultimate Elastic Band Series’ for the first time, from Hall 8.0 Booth J71, at Frankfurt Musikmesse from 11 - 14 April, where Hans invited attendees to “Please do come, try and convince yourself. Feel the absolute joy of an instrument made out of one piece.”
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