ROSINE, Ky. -- During the half-century that bluegrass master Bill Monroe wielded his mandolin, it was run over by a car, drenched with rain and beaten to pieces by a vandal. Yet through it all ...

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An International Bluegrass Music Museum instrument case decal ... if registered before May 1st, 2009 Bill Monroe’s influence on modern bluegrass and mandolin music is inestimable.

To note, the only mandolin Osborne played on the album was on a cover of Bill Monroe’s “Sweetheart You Done Wrong,” which features a triple-threat musical barrage of Osborne, Lewandowski, ...

Monroe died in 1996, but during Skaggs' induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Monroe's legendary mandolin, on display at the Hall of Fame Museum, was removed from its glass display case ...

Telling him how much I enjoyed his version of “Mother’s Only Sleeping,” written by Bill Monroe ... interested. The mandolin lay in the plush green lining of a second case.