I've owned and loved this instrument for 25 years - it's the best sounding instrument (to my ears anyway), but it has always cut into my arm after a fairly short session of playing because it's so thick in the body or because I hold it too firmly or something. Anyway, I finally fashioned an armrest for it out of a cutoff piece of walnut I had and some special order viola chinrest hardware and cork, and I cannot tell you how much of a difference it's made in my ability to play it. It's decidedly not original, but at this point I do not care. Do any other cylinder (or bowlback) mandolin players have this trouble?
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