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Since 1976 Johnson String Instrument has provided teachers with exceptional customer service. By offering the best rental program in the country, a vast selection of new and antique instruments and bows, sheet music, method books, teaching aids, and every imaginable stringed instrument accessory, we help teachers maintain their teaching studios.
Neapolitan maker Armando Altavilla was born in 1876 and died c. 1968. He studied violin making with Francesco Verzella, who was a student of Antonio Gagliano II. Altavilla remained in Naples throughout his long career, and is considered one of the greatest craftsmen of the Gagliano tradition.
