Franco Albanelli was an Italian

Italy

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  luthier

Luthier

A luthier is someone who makes or repairs lutes and other string instruments. In the United States, the term is used interchangeably with a term for the specialty of each maker, such as violinmaker, guitar maker, lute maker, etc...

, a pupil of Gaetano Pollastri

Gaetano Pollastri

-Biography:Gaetano Pollastri Gaetano, Augusto's younger brother,was a professional violinist but after the first world war he devoted himself to violin making. He worked with the same company as his brother in via Castiglione, that was devoted to the construction, repair and commerce of string...

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Albanelli was born in Castel San Pietro Terme

Castel San Pietro Terme

Castel San Pietro Terme is a small city and comune in the province of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, with about 20,600 inhabitants. It is located along the Roman Via Aemilia, at the foot of the Tosco-Emilian Appennines....

, Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna

Emilia–Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of and about 4.4 million inhabitants....

, Italy.

His workmanship has always shown a clear inspiration to the Pollastri

Augusto Pollastri

Augusto Pollastri - was a renowned Italian violin maker, older brother to Gaetano Pollastri....

style and his musical instrument

Musical instrument

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s are now all around the world. He made not more than 40 instruments, primarily violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

s, but included a few few viola

Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

s and violoncelli

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

s. Albanelli won a Gold medal

Medal

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 in Bagnacavallo

Bagnacavallo

Bagnacavallo is a town and comune in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. .The Renaissance painter Bartolommeo Ramenghi bore the nickname of his native city.- Main sights:*Castellaccio * Giardino dei Semplici...

, Italy, in the 1960s.

He primarily produced instruments with a red varnish

Varnish

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He died in San Lazzaro di Savena

San Lazzaro di Savena

San Lazzaro di Savena is an Italian comune of some 30,000 inhabitants in the province of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna.- Geography :...

, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, in 2007.