Violin Equipment Review - The Comford Shoulder Cradle Violin Shoulder Rest

The Comford Violin Accept Cradle is actual altered from any added accept blow on today's market. Instead of adhering to adverse abandon of the violin with two sets of feet, like the accepted Kun models, it has a added circuitous set of bendable rods that defended on both abandon of the lower bout, just beneath the c-shaped cut-out. This adjustment allows the Comford Cradle to sit on your collar bone, which, according to the manufacturer, makes it a added stable, accustomed and adequate rest. The Comford Cradle is accessible in a array of altered models. There is the gold model, which comes in alpine and average varieties, and the plastic, which is aswell accessible in alpine and average sizes. The artificial archetypal is appreciably beneath big-ticket but is aswell a bit lighter. The alpine is actual alpine -- and even the average contributes absolutely a bit of height.JOYO JF-16 There are two above (and I beggarly absolutely major) problems with this rest. The aboriginal is that it is acutely heavy. It seems to about bifold the weight of the violin. Although the artificial archetypal is somewhat lighter, it is still the heaviest blow I accept anytime tested. The additional above botheration is that this accept blow affects the accent of the apparatus added than any added blow I accept evaluated. In fact, the aggregation claims that the blow has a alveolate "resonating" alcove that sweetens, mellows, and in actuality improves your sound. Translation: your complete becomes deadened and muted. In my opinion, it takes ample airs to affirmation that your accept blow in actuality "improves" the complete of the violin. Tell that to an buyer of a Stradivarius and see how abundant that affirmation comes up short. As a amount of fact, the greatest sin a accept blow can accomplish is to affect the sound. The actuality that the Comford affects the complete is and should be advised a architecture blemish -- not an advantage. For me, this would be a accept blow best of endure resort -- one to accept alone afterwards you accept approved all the others and alone the Comford is adequate for you.