How To Place a Wittner Augsburg chinrest and adjust it in height

Click here to buy the Wittner Augsburg violin chinrest: Come on over to to enjoy the discussion with other violinists and violists worldwide. SUBSCRIBE: 300 FREE online violin lessons: Find more product reviews for violinists in this YouTube playlist: FOLLOW VIOLIN LOUNGE Instagram: Facebook: Twitter: YouTube channel: Join me at and learn more! Watch me putter! First a short introduction to what Im doing in this video... To make playing the violin or viola more comfortable for your neck you might want to fill up the space between your shoulder and neck a bit. In this way you dont have to bend and tighten your neck too much to hold your violin or viola. Lots of people increase the height of their shoulder rest but you can better increase the height of your chinrest. If you increase the height of your shoulder rest your violin will be higher and therefore your bow arm will be higher. A too high bow arm can cause shoulder injury. The problem was that there were no adjustable chin rests while shoulder rests are easily adjustable in height. As a solution people would risk raising there shoulder rests and get shoulder injury... or they would have a high chinrest made by a luthier. Having made a custom height chinrest is not only expensive but you are still fixed to one height. You can try out different heights to find out your ideal. Wittner has now created the Augsburg chinrest which you can adjust in height yourself on both sides. You can try out and find out what the ideal height is for you and you can also decide to have the chinrest a bit tilted by using different heights on the left en right side of the chinrest. Great invention! Eureka! It took me a little while to figure out how you can do this easily so I have made a video for you about this. Enjoy! Click here to buy the Wittner Augsburg violin chinrest: Did you enjoy this video? Please let me know in the comments! Love Zlata,

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