“New Life Violin Series” is the label inside one of Bob Murphy’s ole fiddles made new. By using acoustical techniques he taught himself–methods very similar to the “ditching” techniques used a half century ago by pioneering luthier Carleen Hutchins–Bob transforms a mediocre fiddle into one that SINGS!
Thanks, Bob, for hosting Hutchins’ biographer Quincy Whitney last week to talk about American Luthier, the new, groundbreaking story of the 20th century American female luthier whose Harvard physicist mentor asked of her–“What is the feminine of Stradivari?”