title: American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins--the Art and Science of the Violin
author: Quincy Whitney
description: "Whitney's biography . . . is engaging and contains many fascinating details."-- "The Strad"<br /><br />"Whitney's work is an excellent opening salvo into Hutchins research, laying solid groundwork for future work. The lay reader will thoroughly enjoy the colorful characters, the interlacing storylines, and the amazing serendipity that so often seemed to come to Hutchins--and that she grabbed with both hands. Scholars and luthiers will be fascinated with the tale of a lifetime's achievements in violin acoustics."-- "Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society"<br /><br />[This] biography of Carleen Hutchins . . . should be of interest to anyone involved in violins and violinmaking and in the interface between science and music. . . Probably no other modern figure has left as significant an influence as Carleen Hutchins on successive violinmakers and on the ways that the violin is understood.-- "Fiddler Magazine"<br /><br />"An engaging, entertaining, accurate, and informative work, especially to those with an interest in music and acoustics. Having researched extensively Carleen's life, Quincy Whitney has done a phenomenal job."-- "Acoustical Society of America Journal"
zlib_text: Charles Castleman and Allyson Dawkins 
  SUPERIOR FINGER 
  EXERCISES 
  for Violin 
  The Use ofScales~ Arpeggios 
  and The Finger Patterns of 
  Emanuel Ondricek 
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  Emanuel Ondricek was born in Pilsen (some biographies give his place of birth as Prague) 
  on December 6, 1880, and he died in Boston on December 30, 1958. Emanuel Ondricek was one of 
  four violin playing sons of Jan Ondrfcek. His older brother Franticek (Franz) was a protégé of 
  Wieniawski who gave the premiere of the Dvorak Violin Concerto. The other brothers, Carl and 
  Stanislav were also well-known. Like his brothers, Emanuel was a student of his father Jan. At 
  fourteen, he entered the Conservatory at Prague where he was a student of Sevcik (1894-9), and of 
  y saye (privately). He graduated with first prize five years later and was publicly congratulated for 
  