New Violin Family Association, Inc.
Although twenty-eight-year GAL member Carleen Hutchins did not take up a string instrument until age forty, she has now been in the forefront of research into the physics of violins for over fifty years. She is a founder of the Catgut Acoustical Society, the first editor of its journal, and a developer of the New Violin Family octet. Carleen passed away in 2009
▪ bio current as of 2006
2006
AL#86 p.32 read this article
Alan Carruth Carleen Hutchins
▪ Even if you couldn’t care less about violins you will be fascinated by this woman’s life. She has built and studied bowed instruments for as long as anyone, and her contributions to the field may be beyond estimating. If everyone’s life was as busy and fulfilling as Hutchins’ the world would be a far different place than it is. With 4 photos and relative drawings of the 8 instruments in the new violin family.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1980
GALQ Vol.8#3 p.8 BRB1 p.300 read this article
Carleen Hutchins
▪ Carleen Hutchins gives an introduction to the work of the Catgut Acoustical Society at the GAL’s 1979 Convention in Boston.