Irish Jigs on the Octave Mandolin Emily Martin

Traditional Irish tunes played by Emily Martin of The Martin Family Band from Maryland. Loving my new Gypsys Music octave mandolin! I usually play a standard size mandolin and have just started playing on the larger, and louder octave and it's really fun transposing old tunes and songs to this instrument (I haven't picked up my old mando for weeks). Here's a few jigs, O'Farrells Welcome to Limerick, Out on the Ocean and Banish Misfortune. Check out luthier, and owner of Gypys Music, Walt Kuhlman's elegantly handcrafted instruments @ http://www.GypsysMusic.com. http://www.martinfamilymusic.com

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Music

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• ireland
• celtic
• octave mandolin
• Mandola
• Emily Martin
• Martin Family Band
• Jigs

[dbmcnew]

Hi Emily, Great playing as always. Mary and I miss playing with you at Mt.Vernon. Dave McNew formerly of Itinerant band. Hi to Mom and Dad and the rest of your family.

[Martinstringband]

@dbmcnew Hey Dave! Thanks for the message, my parents send their greetings. Yes, it definitely was fun playing, seems like a little less music at mount vernon than in the good old days lol, maybe that's my imagination. Take care! Emily

[madhatful]

Very cool - I like this a lot. I've just gotten an octave mandolin and am wondering about your thoughts on the age-old question of pick direction when playing jigs. Do you play d-u-d, d-u-d, or d-u-d u-d-u? I've also read that some people use d-u-u, d-u-u. I would appreciate your thoughts on the matter.

[Martinstringband]

@madhatful Yes...that is definitely an age old debate, personally I must admit I don't think about the pick direction at all--although for those that use DUDDUD it certainly makes sense with the timing of the jig. If you're careful to keep that 1..23 1..23 emphasis and rhythm in mind though you can get the same result with any pick direction.

[fuelban]

what ever it is, YOU GOT IT, in spades woman....LOl.. wow, really nice.

Thom in Scotland.

[ScriptKitty37]

I stumbled across this from another post (Martin Family Band) on the Arizona Irish Music board.... recognized teh Mandolin immediately. Walt and I used to be in a band together once upon a time. My thought was... I truly believe us folk musicians are all 1-step-removed from one another! LOL! Beautiful tunes on a beautiful instrument!!

[nestoresuarez]

Excellent work, young lady!

[mario3311991]

That was Hella sick!

[IlBardus]

Very, very good!

What can I say? I really loved that.

I'll confess that I wanna dance, now. Haha.

[canvascat]

nice playing Nice tone too--Thanks Emily