Wittner Ultra Violin Tailpiece
By Wittner
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Description
Precision made tailpiece with 4 integrated fine tuners. 'Space Age' Composite material combines lightness and strength. Benchmark tailpiece for all ball end strings. These tailpieces are very easy to fit with instructions included. Please contact us if you require advice.
Specifications
- High tech composite for lightness and strength
- Precision brass adjusters in metal bushings for long life and accurate tuning.
- Included nylon tailgut with easy fit brass nuts.
- Made in Germany.
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Customer reviews:
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Keen Amateur
Good product - does all it promises
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Pros: Easy to fit to the fiddle and fitting the strings was also easy. I liked the options for adjusting the length of the nylon tail gut. The fine tuners are smooth and light to use for my now rather arthritic fingers.
Cons: Nothing - I have bought another for my other fiddle.
Keen Amateur
Simple effective upgrade at a low price
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Pros: I purchased a new fiddle which had a rosewood tailpiece with adjusters added. I replaced this with the Wittner tailpiece which gives me more distance between the tailpiece and bridge and has improved the stability of the instrument - it stays in tune better. The tuners are also easier to turn and it makes the use of my Roth-Sihon sliding mute much easier.
Cons: none
Keen Amateur
Very well made and excellent value.
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Pros: This tailpiece is excellent value and very well made. This is the second time I have fitted this model to one of my violins and with respect to ease of tuning it is excellent.
Cons: I understand tailpieces have an acoustic function as well as a mechanical function. Compared to a wooden tailpiece with separate adjusters, I have easily achieved a distance of 1/6 the string length, from the bridge to the integral adjusters, which I understand is acoustically desirable. Unfortunately for my particular violin, a modern German trade violin, the very lightness of the tailpiece , appears to be making an already "bright" sound, too "bright". I have now removed the tailpiece and fitted an ebony tailpiece with a single adjuster, which is heavier, and the sound is better.
Other: My "Cons" comments are not a criticism, because on my other violin which I thought had a dull sound, the Wittner tailpiece produced a sound improvement combined with ease of tuning, which is of great value in a session.
Beginner
Witner integrated fine tuners the way to go
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Pros: Lightweight easy to fit. Good piece of kit. it is a good tailpiece. For replacing a heavier tailpiece with separate fine tuners. Just the job.
Cons: None ..
Other: MY APPROACH Commandeer kitchen table or other large flat surface. Remove the chin rest taking care not to scratch violin. I used a thick wooden cocktail stick with a blunted end to loosen the chin rest bracket; but there is a cheap specialist tool available. Take care and compare new with old tailpiece dimensions, paying particular attention to the loop size. Remember to check the position of the bridge because once the strings are loosened the bridge is a free component. The little notches halfway down the f holes are a good indicator to line the bridge (my amateur view and matched with the positiion of the bridge before I loosened the strings). Remember the lower side of the bridge is on the E string side. Make new loop a smidge shorter (half the gut width) to take into account stretching. Allow about a day to allow tail piece to settle then peg/fine tune. Avoid soundpost becoming dislodged by taking care not to move violin when all strings are detached from old tailpiece and attached to new tailpiece. I connected G and A before moving violin, essentially once a string is tensioned the soundpost should be secure. As an amateur I needed the extra security of the A string. Reattach chin rest. Tune up and have a good old scrape, play a tune. You may have to retune frequently until tailpiece settles. I left violin for a day re-tuned and it was fine.
Keen Amateur
Excellent tailpiece
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Pros: Easy to fit and adjust so that the string afterlengths were correct. Smooth screw action for each string with no buzzing or vibrations and there is good allowance for adjustment without any undue projection of the claws beneath the tailpiece. I play on an 1850 Dereazey and find the tone with this tailpiece is as good as if not better that my previous ebony tailpiece.
Cons: Nothing comes to mind
Keen Amateur
Effective and reliable tailpiece
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Pros: I've used several of these tailpieces on diffierent violins. They work with all sorts of strings, even gut ones (though there isn't really enough adjustment for gut). With metal core strings, the Wittner tailpiece gives you the advantage of fine tuners for all strings without the weight and ugly appearance of separate tuners. I have read that individual tuners, as opposed to the integral ones in the Wittner, can act as an unwelcome mute, though I haven't done a comparative test. The Wittner is neat, reliable and reasonably priced.
Cons: The aesthetics might not be to everyone's taste - some will prefer a hardwood tailpiece.
Beginner
Fine tail-piece, fine tuning
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Pros: Easy to fit and easily adjusted to get the correct string stopping and after length. Looks good. The overall tone of my violin is slightly improved; the screw-adjusters have a very positive action.
Cons: None
Other: After struggling peg-tuning with my arthritic fingers I gave up. This integrated tail-piece makes fine tuning a pleasure, so much quicker and more accurate. I also start playing in a much calmer mood.
Keen Amateur
Nice bit of kit at a very reasonable price
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Pros: I bought this item for my son's violin to make tuning easier for him. He is an intermediate player but quite young, so tuning with pegs he found difficult. It was easy and quite quick to switch tail pieces, but I also play violin so know my way round the instrument. However, I think anyone could put one of these on with a little bit of care.
Cons: When removing the strings and old tail piece, there is a risk of the soundpost coming lose in the body of the violin. This happened to me, and although I was able to set it back, it is a tricky job, probably best done by a luthier with the right tools.
Keen Amateur
A tailpiece which does its job easily and well.
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Pros: Light, well constructed tailpiece with excellent integral tuners. I have fitted two to a couple of fiddles now and they have been a big success, holding the tuning well but very easily adjustable using the screws on the fine tuners. The supplied tailpiece gut was easliy fitted and adjusted.
Cons: There was nothing I did not like.
Other: I had tried a cheap no-name tailpiece very similar to the Wittner recently but found it very inferior to the Wittner; the tuners were very difficult to turn when adjusting the tuning under normal tension.
Keen Amateur
The perfect tailpiece!
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Pros: Sturdy construction, reliable fine tuning screws/ pegs, included tailpiece gut string, visually non-distracting, in summation very well made and a complete answer to your tailpiece requirements.
Cons: Nothing, I couldn't have asked for a better tailpiece for my (I hope) long-term trusty violin.
Other: highly recommended
