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 ...
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 ...