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Last week a plump Montclair, N.J., housewife was working hard at closing the string gap: aided by a Guggenheim grant, Carleen Maley Hutchins was devising the members of a new family of seven stringed instruments-including a vertical viola.
Beyond Belief. At 51, Mrs. Hutchins is a widely respected maker of violas and occasional cellos and violins (she makes violins "only when there isn't enough wood left to make a viola"). When the Boston Symphony's Eugene Lehner wants a viola, he goes straight to Montclair...
Good Carpenter. Violas started emerging from the Hutchins' living room about 15 years ago. Mrs. Hutchins, who was teaching science at the Brearley School in Manhattan, started studying the viola and discarded a store-bought model to try to make her own from blueprints. Although a Steinway violinmaker pronounced...
Most of the Hutchins products are finished in the kitchen of a brown stucco house in which violins, violas and cellos are piled under tables, filed away in secretaries, and hang from curtain rods and moldings. Mrs. Hutchins tests her newly devised instruments in a basement lab full of measuring...
An article in the April 20 issue implies that the Great Books Foundation was started by Encyclopaedia Britannica and that there is some connection between the two organizations through Britannica's publication The Great Books of the Western World. The Great Books Foundation was organized as an independent, nonprofit...