Holding a violin without a shoulder rest will allow you to play better in tune with less practice. It will also allow your sound to become richer, deeper, and more natural. Finally, it will allowy you to play with less tension and become almost immediately more comfortable.

Can you play violin without a chin rest?

Re: Yes you can play a violin without chinrest!

The tone is not all that different without the shoulder rest and chin rest attached it's just requires more effort to hold the instrument then would be required when they are attached the sound is little changed or it sounds just about the same.

Do professional violinists use shoulder rests?

Also the choice whether or not to use them is highly personal. There are fantastic violinists playing without shoulder rest and there are fantastic violinists playing with shoulder rest. ... If there would be ONE ideal shoulder rest (or none), every single soloist would use it.