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.

He's been credited with putting the mandolin back on the world map of classical music, as well as jazz and even folk. He tells FRANCE 24's Florence Villeminot why the string instrument has been o ...

A mandolin made 111 years ago in Topeka by Albert Shutt, a highly regarded inventor and creator of stringed instruments, is now back in the capital city, where music store owner Jimmy Hayes is ...