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centrifuge

Posted 6/11/2007 1:49 PM

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In the mid- to late 1990's, I saw an electric violin with a harness instead of a shoulder rest at one of the D'Addario violin shows in Manhattan.

I am trying to find a harness like that, or who made that violin.

I saw Shar has an electric violin that doesn't need a shoulder rest or chin rest. But what I want is a harness for my acoustic violin. I've been playing many years, but now I have a neck injury.

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celloguy

Posted 6/12/2007 12:00 PM

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The only kind of violins I have seen with something like what you describe are the electric violins made by Mark Wood. He uses a patented wrap-around strap system rather than a shoulder rest. Some photos of this are available on his website:

http://www.woodviolins.com/html/viper.html

Other than this, I am not familiar with any other such harness systems as you describe, especially for "standard" acoustic violins.

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