Historical Chinrest

April 27, 2014 at 04:49 PM · I will really appreciate any information on where to acquire an early 19th century strip-model historical chinrest, like the one Shunske Sato used in this video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoe5toypo9s

I have found some variations, like

Dale Stuckenbruck

www.violin-saw.com/orderbookorchinrest.html

and

Dave Swarbrick (Swarb)

www.jpbmusic.com/violinchin&shoulder.htm

and I am wondering if anyone can point me towards other similar designs out there?

Replies (5)

Carlo Ballara

April 27, 2014 at 06:47 PM · Any restorer will have some. In my experience they tend to throw used 'bits' into a box when updating a violin. Often you can match a single peg this way.

Rocky Milankov

April 27, 2014 at 11:47 PM · How heavy is that monster?

p.s. 2 of 3 links do not work

Henry Butcher.

April 28, 2014 at 05:20 AM · This new Chinrest designed by the world famous Violinist Dave Swarbrick, is intended to assist the holding of your instrument by reducing the need to press down on the Chinrest, thus greatly improving comfort.

I designed a chin rest which looks very similar to 'The Swarb'....Yeah, I simply removed the cup part of the rest by sawing away with a hack saw.

True though, it assists greatly with holding the instrument, thus comfortable....

Dorian Fu

April 28, 2014 at 08:00 AM · Does anyone have information whether a specimen of a modern reproduction of the Double-ridge chin-rest or something similar is available?

https://archive.org/details/secretsofviolinp00hone

Honeyman: The secrets of violin playing (189-?)

Printed page 7, or 11 out of 96 in the PDF.