Chinrest

The chin rest is mostly manufactured in painted ebony and different concave top with violins and violas to allow a player to the instrument by means of chin and shoulder pressure safer and more convenient to carry, without affecting the sound development by touching the violin top or the violin soil.

Due to the individual shape of the human chin and jaw bone, it can have a very flat to very recessed shape. In the supervision of the chinrest is ellipsoidal. Here, the chinrest is visible at the top of the instrument, laterally offset to the tailpiece and it has a total of more functional than aesthetic shaping on. It forms today as well as the counterpart to the buttstock.

Louis Spohr invented it around 1820, actually due to improvement worthy sound quality of these instruments, which were played with or without ( Felt ) cloth. Show traces of sweat that the musicians laying on her chin or get started before it made ​​do with (felt ) scarves or neck pillows, which they placed on the frame and just above the ceiling and floor of the instrumentation. The cloths took the chinrest and shoulder pads anticipated. By towels, pillows or "free hang " of the sound, however, was sensitive blunt, why chinrest, touch through its lateral attachment to the apex of the frame (deposits), neither ceiling nor floor of the violins and violas, and the sound can develop freely in this way.

Today's chinrest may differ in some characteristics. They can be equipped with screw or tension sleeve screws devices. You can find them made ​​of plastic or wood, where the paints are basically wasser-/salzabstoßend in wood (oil paint, Modern paint, shellac polish, wax, paint traditional recipes ).