Whether you play folk, bluegrass, rock, or alternative, we’ve curated the best mandolins from Gibson, Fender, Epiphone, Ibanez, The Loar, and more… When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

A mandolin made 111 years ago in Topeka by Albert Shutt, a highly regarded inventor and creator of stringed instruments, is now back in the capital city, where music store owner Jimmy Hayes is having ...

LEWIS – Bobby Wintringham, the sole, steady and unassuming hand behind San Juan Mandolins, prefers to be in the background. He’s putting the finishing touches on instrument No. 84, a guitar-shaped ...

KALAMAZOO — Authentic Bill Monroe-style bluegrass mandolin is a mystery to many. So many notes, such speedy picking. Mike Compton, Grammy-winning master of Monroe-style mandolin, lost one of his ...

Q. This Gibson mandolin belonged to my mother. Both she and her sister received instruments as young girls in the 1920s from their father, who was a coal miner and could only afford to buy them on ...

BENGALURU:The brilliant U Shrinivas adapted the mandolin, an instrument from Italy, to play south Indian classical music. His disciple Aravind Bhargav is among those excelling at this pioneering ...

In 1968, while square-dancing during his boss Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Festival in Bean Blossom, Indiana, guitarist Roland White turned the wrong way and ran face-to-face into Monroe himself. Monroe ...

A long time ago there was a world where people went to what were called record shops. I once went to one that had a sale with such ridiculously low-priced bargains that I came away with bagfuls of ...

PROVIDENCE – Adam Levin remembers salivating for this opportunity. “As a young Jedi of the classical guitar, I had this vision of a career in which you’re a teacher at a university, you’re performing ...