• View this story alongside more photos, a slideshow and a video. When Frank Ford and Richard Johnston first met as college students back in the 1960s, introduced by a mutual friend, it was evident ...

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 ...

The mandolin isn’t just an accent in J Carmichael’s music — it’s the driving force behind his unique Americana-rock blend. Influenced by improvisational bluegrass and jazz, Carmichael was drawn to the ...

OK, let’s figure this one out. Here we are in the age of cutthroat Internet retail sales — low prices, no service — and here, still, is little Gryphon Stringed Instruments, as fine an example as you ...

Bluegrass music has always been a part of Jerry Rosa Sr.’s life. His uncle was known as the father of bluegrass music in Missouri and played mandolin professionally during the 1950s and ‘60s.

With his unparalleled virtuosity and contagious charisma, Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital has played the biggest concert halls around the world, from Wigmore Hall in London to Carnegie Hall in New York ...