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 ...
From a tidy, modest workshop/garage, Niceville luthier Jason Sloan has been building exceptional handmade mandolins for working musicians and collectors. He built his first mandolin, an F5 style, for ...