Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mandolin made 111 years ago in Topeka by Albert Shutt, a highly regarded inventor and creator of stringed instruments, is now ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Bluegrass musician John Reischman has mastered the art of the mandolin, a small stringed instrument with a round back and a unique quality, which he says evolves the more it's played. Plucking away as ...

On September 19, Indian music lost one of its finest and youngest ambassadors, U Srinivas. Mandolin Shrinivas, as he was more often called, was single-handedly responsible for bringing the mandolin to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...