Question: Where was the instrument maker working in the 60s that reasoned that a viola played vertically could be made larger born?
Sentence (from "Carleen Hutchins"): Carleen Maley Hutchins (May 24, 1911 – August 7, 2009) was an American former high school science teacher, violinmaker and researcher, best known for her creation, in the 1950s/60s, of a family of eight proportionally-sized violins now known as the violin octet (e.g., the vertical viola) and for a considerable body of research into the acoustics of violins.
Relevant evidence: No