Don't miss the obituary in today's New York Times of Carleen Hutchins, the violin maker who was a true ground breaker. Not only was she a woman in an extremely male-dominated field (even as tiny as that field is), but, at the behest of Henry Brant, she created a whole new group of eight instruments known as the new violin family or the violin octet. (If you recall Yo-Yo Ma's recording of the Bartok Viola Concerto, you've heard one of her instruments.)
(Bonus information for the parents out there: You know Dr. Virginia Apgar of the Apgar Score; did you know that she too was a violin maker?)
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