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 ...

It is not too often that we get to hear mandolin sounds during the festive period, the two aren’t too closely related, yet this December a concert brings just that. The lyrical sound of the mandolin ...

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 ...

Italian artists value tradition ? from the carvers of conch shells into cameos, to glassblowers, to the makers of music. “I have been playing the mandolin since I was 9,” said Carlo Aonzo, a native of ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

Make a unique homemade instrument by following Wayne Erbsen’s homemade mandolin (or “hamdolin”) instructions using a ham can and inexpensive building materials. Before I explain the particulars on how ...