Re: To Tone Gard or not
Originally Posted by
farmerjones
im not anti-tone gaurd but i feel the same way about the design.
If it were more similar to a violin shoulder rest, only bigger, i'd be more likely to jump on the bandwagon. I could make a proto. but im lazy. There must be a broad pattent b/c there's not a bunch of companies making "similar but different" like they do violin shoulder rests. Every place that touches a violin, the rest has at least surgical tubing.
Question(s): Can you leave the tone gaurd on when in the case?
Does it attach with screws like a pick guard? Or is it held by friction?
Answers to your questions:
Yes, you can. I got a Tone Gard for Christmas and it hardly adds to the thickness of the instrument (it maybe sits off by a few millimeters at its most convex point). Granted, that's in my own run-of-the-mill chipboard case, so depending on your case model, you may have issues.
Question 2:
It's held by friction on the instrument (it sort of clamps on; the clamping arms are made of spring-steel). The clamp arms have a rubber coating, and leather pads placed along the Tone Gard hold it away from the instrument along the back. Pretty smooth installation.
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