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 ...

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 ...