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.

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 ...