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New violin sounds excite Sacramento audience

Sacramento's Community Center Theater came to life Thursday with the beautiful sound of The Hutchins Consort. Presented by Sacramento Community Concerts, the group performed a one-night concert that defied the range of a modern symphony orchestra string section. The Hutchins Consort is a unique Southern California-based group that plays eight scaled violins of the violin octet design. These acoustically balanced instruments range from a high treble violin to a low contrabass violin and together cover the musical scale that today's string instrument, the violin, viola, cello and bass, do not. These eight instruments, three similar to a violin and five upright, were created by Dr. Carleen

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