LINND

General information

The development of the Linnd violin shoulder rest combined highly-skilled hand-craftsmanship with the latest Computer Aided Design techniques to produce what is probably the greatest-ever advance in the history of the violin shoulder rest. This advance in design is so revolutionary that the Linnd shoulder rest is now awaiting the grant of pending world-wide patents, having already gained design registration in major international markets.

In overcoming the design flaws that plague all other available conventional violin shoulder rests, Kenny Johnson has developed a shoulder rest that allows a user’s violin to resonate with complete freedom from restriction, dramatically improving both tone and volume in comparison to other shoulder rests. The Linnd shoulder rest’s patent-pending additional transverse bar eliminates splay and its small, elegant feet hold the rest in position with the minimum of pressure. The use of high-technology materials means that the Linnd violin shoulder rest is extremely light in weight, further reducing any potential effect on the sound of any violin to which it is fitted.

The vast majority of conventional shoulder rests rely on a relatively high pressure across the back of a violin to resist their tendency to splay open and to fall off when the instrument is being played. This transverse pressure badly restricts the vibration of the back of the violin and changes its resonant frequency, thus diminishing both tone and volume. In addition, the large feet of a conventional rest bear both on the back and on the sides of the instrument, further restricting its ability to resonate freely. Using a pad as a rest - or even no shoulder rest at all - can also result in a tone-suffocating pressure being placed on the back of the violin.

Made in Great Britain from high-technology materials and featuring a unique, padded form factor that is adjustable both in width and height to fit virtually any violin and/or violinist, the patent-protected Linnd shoulder rest offers the musician a combination of ergonomic and sonic advantages that cannot be surpassed, or even equalled, by any other violin shoulder rest.