The mandolin is a beautiful, strange, difficult instrument, tuned like a violin but with a flat, fretted fingerboard and eight strings instead of four. Played with a plectrum, it is capable of ...

Mandolin orchestras and string ensembles were common, playing classical and popular music. But by the early 1920s, that boom had busted and the 4-string banjo began to take over the popular music ...

NAZARETH, Pa., April 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- (Musikmesse Hall 8.0 | Booth F74) -- C.F. Martin & Co.® (Martin Guitar) will introduce long-awaited banjo and mandolin strings crafted with Monel® at ...

These days, he strums and picks rhythm and lead mandolin in an odd but vast variety of projects, from melodic string trios and acoustic settings to high-volume punk/metal — all on the mandolin.

He's been credited with putting the mandolin back on the world map of classical music, as well as jazz and even folk. He tells FRANCE 24's Florence Villeminot why the string instrument has been o ...