Sep. 7—Historians of bluegrass music say that Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass," bought his famed 1923 Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 mandolin at a barber shop in Florida in the 1940s. But Jerry Ashley, ...
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 ...