Anastasios's instruments now carried labels in English: He filed his firstĪnd only patent Mafor an Italian style bowl back mandolin. He quickly assimilated the pace of American business practices. Once in America, Anastasios continued his instrument trade. Stathopoulo living atĥ6 Roosevelt on Manhattan's Lower East side, home to many other Greek and Italian immigrants.
High taxes imposed on Greek immigrants under the Ottoman Empire made life difficult for the Stathopoulo family and at the age of 40, Anastasios boarded a ship to the United States. His first son, Epaminondas, was born in 1893, followed by Alex, Minnie, Orpheu, Frixo and Ellie. Reputation as a talented luthier was providing enough business that he opened his own instrument factory. During this time, the family established a store in Smyrna selling and repairing lutes, violins and bouzoukis. Trips throughout Europe, where the boy observed his father's trade and learned about tonewoods. Kostantinos would often take Anastasios with him on work There, Kostantinos established himself as a lumber merchant.
Where they settled in Smyrna, a bustling seaport with a strong Greek immigrant population of merchants and craftsmen. Little else is known of the family until 1873, around the time of Anastasios's 12th birthday, when the Stathopoulo family left Greece for the coast of Turkey Magoula in the Eurotas valley to register the birth of his son, Anastasios.
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