The use of the chinrest is recent,
from about the middle of the 19th century.
Until then, the instrument was placed freely on the collar bone, or the chest.
The introduction of the chinrest brings
the instrument closer to the player's neck
allowing the musician
to increase the virtues of both the
instrument and the player.
It appears to be a painful position that one has
to learn to transcend
Consult : Historical evolution


       Bois d'Harmonie Models.

Chinrests pointed.

Morawetz
Veronne


Chinrests bridged.

Guarneri 1
PVS


Flesch
Guarneri 2


We also make for Tibor VARGA, their Original model.
It's the only chinrest that offers you a choice of 3 curves in the range and in 4 heights of chinrest to suit your morpholgy comfortably.
Small sizes are available for 1/2 & 3/4 .
They are available from:

Jean-Noël RYBICKI,
3 ruelle du chapitre,
SION CH-1950 SWITZERLAND
>ftvg@bluewin.ch

Technical note

The mecanism that fastens these chinrests comes in two models. ,
The simple fitting, or the Hill fitting.

Hill fixation
Simple fixation