Carleen Hutchins

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Carleen Maley Hutchins, born May 24, 1911, in Springfield, Massachusetts, is a violin maker and researcher (and former grade-school science teacher) known for her creation, in the 1950s and '60s, of a family of eight proportionally-sized violins now known as the violin octet (see, e.g., the vertical viola) and for a considerable body of research into the acoustics of violins. In 1963, Hutchins co-founded the Catgut Acoustical Society, which develops scientific insights into the construction of new and conventional instruments of the violin family.

[edit] External links and references

• The Carleen Hutchins Collection and Archive
• The Hutchins Consort