Carleen Hutchins

Carleen Hutchins

Infobox Person


image_size = 150px
name = Carleen Hutchins
birth_date = birth date and age|1911|5|24
birth_place = flagicon|Massachusetts Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
death_date =
death_place =
occupation = acoustician, violin maker and researcher

Carleen Maley Hutchins (born May 24, 1911) is a violin maker and researcher (and former grade-school science teacher) known for her creation, in the 1950s and 1960s, 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. She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. 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.

External links and references

* [http://www.usd.edu/smm/Archives/NewViolinFamily/NewViolinFamily.html The Carleen Hutchins Collection and Archive]
* [http://www.hutchinsconsort.org/carleenhutchins.html The Hutchins Consort]


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