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Yeah the shoulder rest helped me big time. Wrong way round or something daft like that? Fat side attaches to the side of the chin rest thingy. Violins always feel weird and small to me no matter what though. No going back from the viola! We should become mortal enemies

LOL, funny you say that I tried switching it both ways round and even watched a video for attaching the rest, tried angling it a few different ways, raising/lowering it etc. In the end I don't use it that much!