| | Visiting Artists Will Play Unique Matched Set Of Instruments April 6 |
 | | The instruments, members of the violin family, were designed by Alfred Stelzner, a 19th-century mathematician-physicist-musician whose work achieved fame in Europe for a time but faded into obscurity in the 20th century. |
| | They include Stelzner's redesigned violin, viola and cello, plus two instruments that he invented: the violotta, played like a violin but tuned one octave below a violin; and the cellone, played like a cello but tuned two octaves below a violin. |
| | Stelzner believed he could achieve superior tonal results over the traditional violin family by creating the instruments using elliptical rather than circular shaped designs. |
| www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2005/march/032405summit-players.html (1008 words) |
