Mandolin maker

A typical mandolin has a hollow wooden body with a tailpiece that holds one end of the strings, a floating bridge, a neck with a flat fretted fingerboard, a nut, and mechanical tuning machines to accommodate metal strings. It evolved from the lute family during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bowlback mandolins, while used worldwide are most commonly manufactured in Europe, where the long history of mandolin development has created local styles. Let’s visit Carlo Mazzaccara, who is passionate abou