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 ...

Following in his uncle’s footsteps, Rosa was set on purchasing the same mandolin his uncle used, a classic Lloyd Loar Gibson instrument. A signed Lloyd Loar mandolin can be worth more than $250,000.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Once stocked with more than 1,000 rare and expensive stringed instruments, there are only 12 guitars and banjos left on the wall of Mandolin Brothers in West Brighton.

Between them, father and son have made over 50 wooden stringed instruments ... He has built 18 of his favorite instrument – the mandolin, one of which Capo’s Music Store co-owner Gill Braswell ...

The smoothly carved design of a violin, the molded backing of a mahogany guitar and the delicate inlay of mother-of-pearl into the neck of a finely tuned mandolin don’t speak of a wood butcher.