Whether they play guitar, harmonica, piano or any other instrument, musicians cherish the tools of their trade. And often, there's a story behind where the instrument came from — or from whom — or ...
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 ...
HILLSBORO -- Two dozen musicians sit in semicircle rows on the hardwood stage, fine-tuning their instruments and organizing the sheet music on the stands before them. At the center, a compact, ...
More than virtually any other instrument, the mandolin stands for different things depending on time and place. In the 18th century it was the preserve of the wealthy in salons across Europe; by the ...
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 ...
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 ...
BANGALORE: No concert-goer had heard Karnatak music on the mandolin before U Srinivas stormed into the world of classical music in the early 1980s. Mandolin and South Indian classical music had ...
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