Kun Solo Violin Shoulder Rest
SKU: 516932
$85
- Collapsible, adjustable shoulder rest for full size & 3/4 violin
- Ideal shoulder rest for players with long necks, and those who prefer a taller model.
- lighter weight & wider profile than standard Kun shoulder rests
The Kun Solo features a simplified, quick-adjust finger lever that provides ultra-fine size adjustment and eliminates screws.
Greater width on the shoulder end gives the Solo added comfort, and a new collapsing mechanism with recessed and integrated drums means its ‘feet’ can be folded easily for storage.
Patterned cut-outs in the Solo’s sponge rubber enhance its grip on the player’s shoulder and reduce its weight, while freeing up your instrument’s sound.
The Solo is the perfect shoulder rest for players with long necks, and those who prefer a taller model.
With its sleek, contoured body and chic two-toned design in metallic bronze and black, the Solo is a dynamic and affordable addition to the Kun family of shoulder rests.
Notes on the Kun Solo: the Solo is intended to sit in a higher position. When adjusting it, be sure to leave adequate clearance between the adjusting tabs and the back of your instrument.
Also, while the Kun Solo shoulder rest comes assembled, you might need to replace the feet at some point. When doing so, it is important that you use one hand to hold the recessed drum firmly on either side, while the other hand screws in the foot. If you don’t, it will be difficult for the threads on the screw to catch on the threads in the shaft into which it’s being inserted.
AVAILABLE FOR 3/4 & 4/4 VIOLIN (ONE SIZE)
Mission
Kun is exclusively focused on developing the most ergonomic, innovative, comfortable and affordable products for stringed instrument players. Kun products are made in Canada, using exceptional materials to exacting technical and aesthetic standards.
History
The history of the Kun shoulder rest dates back to 1968, when a music professor and craftsman fled the spread of communism into his native Czechoslovakia, making his way to Ottawa, Canada’s capital. The city’s new National Arts Centre, designed in the fashionable Brutalist style and boasting its own orchestra, had just opened its doors. Surely, that émigré thought, all of those violin and viola players would need their instruments repaired?
Within a few years, Joseph Kun, the former head of pedagogy for Slovakia and a self-taught luthier, had established himself on Ottawa’s orchestral music scene, and begun hand-making an invention he’d brought with him from his homeland: the first Kun shoulder rest.
When Joseph met and married Marina, the two worked side-by-side to build a shoulder rest business driven by a single goal: to create the most ergonomically-correct and durable product available.
Over more than four decades, with Marina Kun at the helm, the company’s extensive research into materials and mechanics have fuelled continuous innovation, producing the widest range of models on the market to suit all ages and physical types.
With quality paramount, Kun has been guided by two convictions:
— that a shoulder rest should adapt to the musician and not the reverse;
— and that acoustic qualities are as important as comfort.
The result is a variety of simple but inventive adjusting and folding mechanisms, embodied in often-revolutionary materials to create a product suite that will please the most demanding string players.
So take your pick: wood or composite, traditional or modern, folding or upright, rest assured there is a Kun for you.
Joseph Kun at his workbench – Photo by David Roberts, ARPS
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Indicative prices for Melbourne/Brisbane Metro
Upright Pianos: $660
GB1 or GC1: $770
C3 or smaller: $880
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