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 ...

Billy Strings picked up his first guitar at 4, Ricky Skaggs started at 5 ... He cites names like Hull, Stuart, fellow young mandolin star Dominick Leslie (featured in Molly Tuttle's band Golden ...

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 ...

Melodic playing is definitely where Gear4Music's mandolin is at its best. The sound is bright, particularly on the treble strings, while the fourth string is a touch quieter and mellower. The mandolin ...

This was a crowd favorite for a while at shows, too. “Life on a String” Mandolin Orange’s 2010 full-length debut, Quiet Little Room, was occasionally wobbly but nonetheless a good first record.

Progressive bluegrass group Yonder Mountain String Band is returning to the Top ... The band recently announced the departure of mandolin player Jacob Jolliff, who left at the end of the year ...

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 ...

Appraisal: 1922 Vega Fairbanks Tubaphone #9 Banjo & 1924 F4 Gibson Mandolin, from New York ...