Last year, The String got a new opening theme tune. “Vera” comes from New York based mandolin virtuoso, composer and band ...

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 ...

An exceedingly bare mandolin in quite early stages of manufacture rests on a table within inches of Dearstone. It’s for a woman in Chicago, he said. “It’ll be done in about a month or so,” he said.

After violin, guitar, harmonium and harmonica, the eight-stringed strumming instrument -- mandolin -- demands its due from its players in India. To celebrate its unique melody and legacy, it was ...

WITH many Lanarkshire people “stringing” their way into the music world, there is an ever-increasing demand from adults for lessons in classical guitar and mandolin. Lanarkshire Guitar and Mandolin ...