The Hutchins mezzo violin has the same tuning as a standard ... The other Hutchins violins (treble, soprano and small bass) allow for a wide distribution of parts that helps the octet reproduce ...

Carleen Hutchins, a violin maker who crafted some of the finest instruments of her time, invented new ones and, through science, came as close as anyone ever has to reproducing the venerated sound ...

WOLFEBORO, N.H., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Violin maker Carleen Hutchins, known for the violin octet family of violins, has died in Wolfeboro, N.H., at the age of 98, her daughter Cassie Coons says.

Carleen Hutchins and her collaborators investigated the characteristics responsible for this, and designed a set of eight instruments which covered the entire range from bass to treble violin, all ...