Customer Reviews

Wittner Composite 4/4 Violin Chinrest - Side Mount - Hypoallergenic

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Very comfortable chin rest. I liked the mounting system. Very simple and very easy. Definitely worth a try.

The clamps on this chinrest won't open wide enough for my fiddle, which had a perfectly decent ebony chinrest that wasn't designed to straddle the tailpiece as I wished. Alas, the Wittner looked like it might just make it if I scraped off the cork padding. But, no, still not wide enough. Now I have a chinrest without cork pads to donate to my local school. I hope the kids aren't too hard on the chinrest, though, the Wittner is rather flimsy.
So...check to see if it will fit before you buy, and think about spending your money on ebony or rosewood instead of thin plastic with very slender mounting screws (under those black screw covers).

We upgraded my daughter's chinrest on her 1/10th with one of these. It actually fits several sizes and we're about to move it up to her 1/8th size. Anyway, it is infinitely more comfortable for playing than the standard cheap one on many violins. I highly recommend it.

I am no professional player and I probably need more help than it is worth holding up my violin or "fiddle". I still haven't figured out just where to place this thing and what I need on the back of the violin yet to be comfortable in holding the thing under my chin. If I had anything to say about the piece is that it is hard and uncomfortable under the jaw line. However that is probably just because I haven't got it on the violin correctly and don't know what I am doing yet!