April 28, Barnes & Noble, Nashua. Luthier Alan Carruth, of Newport, demonstrates Chladni patterns on a free cello plate carved by Carleen Hutchins by sprinkling glitter on the open plate and then vibrating the plate at specific frequencies.
Hutchins’s technique of applying Chaldni sound patterns to fiddle plates—and her publishing legacy related to her violin acoustics experiments–made her an international celebrity in the violinmaking field, in addition to the fact that she invented a Violin Octet.