Eliot Grasso has put some new photos on his web page of this Andreas Rogge B set and Kirk Lynch D Set.
He has a solo CD coming soon and can’t wait to hear the Rogge B set on his New CD.
http://www.angelfire.com/md/UilleannPipes/
All the best
Fergus
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I got the above message when hitting the site. Probably goes along with playing too fast 
The link worked for me, at first. I saw the picture of the B pipes of Rogge, and the picture of the drones on the table with the forest right outside the window. But when I returned to the home page, I got the same message as glands.
I got in with no problem. Perhaps you should try again later. There’s several pics of different sets. There’s no sound clips. I’ve heard his name, but am not familiar with his playing.
Eliot is a good piper. He has mastered the fine finger movements of piping in a way that most of us older so-called pipers will never achieve due to the neurofibrillary tangles and drop out of cerebral cortical and cerebellar neurons we experienced with age (and beer). Eliot was one of those youngsters recorded on The New Dawn. He plays a little fast for my taste though. I’d bet he’d finish a reel first in a race against Robbie Hannan and Sean Og Potts. Hopefully, he’ll slow down with age (buy him some beer). I’d be happy to hear that he put some slooooow airs on the CD. I once heard him play an air on the whistle and it was spectacular.
He’s in college now, right? Yeah, he’s definitely very talented. I remember him at Elkins in 1997 when he was 12 or 13 years old. He was already miles better than everyone present except maybe Ben Koehler and Kevin Rowsome.
Thank you Glands, I now have a medical reason why I’m slow! 
As we rapidly approach ‘Geezer’ status…
Yes, and he’s an incredibly mature 19 (probably 20) now. I interviewed him at Elkins this past July for two research projects I am currently working on. In addition to being extremely articulate (and definitely more articulate than any other 19 year olds I know) his comments regarding piping and music in general were very insightful. He’s a piano/organ major at university.
I feel a prediction coming on… 
Eliot Grasso will be America’s answer to Robbie Hannan.
He is a genius at transposing and tweaking tunes from the fiddle repertoire and making them sit beautifully on the pipes.
I have a couple of tunes that I got, one each from Robbie Hannan and Sean Potts, which came from Eliot.
There’s a bunch more tunes of his that I’ve not yet been able to unravel from recordings of Sean and Robbie.
He’s just GOT the ear and the brain [and the fingers] for the music.
His CD will be eagerly awaited by those who have heard him, or his tunes.
Nice to know that Ireland doesn’t have a monopoly on great players
Boyd
Is he well known in the States?
Boyd
Probably known only to those who have attended the East Coast tionol. Then again, I haven’t seen him around for years. Good to hear someone say he has matured…he needed to do a bit of that when I last saw him…when he was about 16-17 years of age. Of course, speaking for myself, I could mature a little more as well.
As far as an answer to Robbie Hannan…sure…why not? I am, however, grateful that we here in North Amerikay (to include Canada) have many other “native” pipers who are world class and don’t serve as an answer to anybody as they have developed their own style and expertise dependent on how they see fit to play rather than by emulation. Take, for example, Benedict Koehler, Patrick Hutchinson, Debbie Quigley, John Walsh, and many more. I could sit for hours and listen and learn from these great pipers who have done it their own way. Patrick Cannady is coming of age, too. Why…Kevin Reitman is a Patsy Touhy reincarnate! Some of the lads and lasses from the Emerald Isle and other parts of the world would do well to emulate these fine players.
Eliot and Robbie are both into Donegal fiddle tunes being played on the pipes…that’s why Eliot could be the US’s answer to Messr Hannan. 
It’s impressive that such experienced players were learning a 16year old’s tunes.
Boyd
“the Mr. Bean of piping”
“nobody ever learns MY tunes”
I remember at the New York tionol Elliot was playing a Wooff B or C set. Debbie Quigley’s, I think. I asked him to play the Song of the Tea, and it sounded just like Robbie. Nothing left out.
The Geezer to beat them all… Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath 
He won the Iron Man competition, didn’t he? 
djm
Eliot Grasso New Solo CD “Standing Room Only” is out now go to web site
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/eliotgrasso to listen to clips of all 11 tracks from the CD I will be buying the CD when it arrives with the NPU.
All the best
You can see/hear Elliot here as well a treasure of many other fine performers:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=EIASHOWCAS
At the homepage of the Kennedy Center you can search “Irish” for a list of performances. Peter Browne, Danu, many, many other great performances there. Enjoy!
Rick