Sherry: you are on the right track. Play every local one you can for sure. You may find one that excites you. If not you will have a good idea if you...
Thanks, Mike and Frithjof. I think what makes it so sad is that until the very last line it seems to be heading for a happy end after the narrator's...
This could be some variant of the Filipino bandurria which, if so, would be strung in double-string courses, not like a mandriola. Those instruments...
I have relatively small hands for a person of the male persuasion. If I were commissioning a mandolin I would use my 23 snakehead A-2’s neck which is...
Yes, Gibson’s illogical system. Sorta logical up to the 1920s then in the 1930s they started using the retail price to distinguish some instruments....