Franco Albanelli
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Franco Albanelli (August 25, 1933 - July 1, 2007) was an Italian violin maker, a pupil of Gaetano Pollastri.
Albanelli was born in Castel San Pietro, near Bologna. His workmanship has always shown a clear inspiration to the Pollastri style and his instruments are now all around the world. He made not more than 40 instruments, including vey few violas and cellos, and won a Gold medal in Bagnacavallo in the '60s. Mostly red varnish.
He died in San Lazzaro di Savena in 2007.
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- Il Suono di Bologna, Da Raffaele Fiorini ai grandi maestri del Novecento". Catalogo della Mostra nella chiesa di San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna 2002. ISBN 88-85250-06-8
- Eric Blot, Un secolo di Liuteria Italiana 1860-1960 - A century of Italian Violin Making - Emilia e Romagna I, Cremona 1994. ISBN 88-7929-026-6
- Dictionary of 20th Century Italian Violin Makers - Marlin Brinser 1978
- The Strad January 1984 Bologna - A living tradition of Violin Making
- Vannes, Rene [1951] (1985). Dictionnaire Universel del Luthiers (vol.3). Bruxelles: Les Amis de la musique. OCLC 53749830.
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