I just stumbled across this thread and had to reply. Back in the 70’s a went to Dublin to find a set of pipes and find a teacher. While I was there I had a few lessons with Andy Conroy at NPU when it was in East Essex St .He was a true virtuoso. Eccentric perhaps but even at his age he was working on dectuplets. He was a master of the octuplet as well as karate. Although some don’t care for the style he was a professor of,you certainly can’t deny that he was a living monument and his likes will never be sen again.
Jon
What the heck are octuplets and dectuplets? Triplets’ grandchildren and grandgrandchildren? 
You might have heard of the Dion quintuplets, well then these would be the Conroy Dectuplets. Andy could cram ten notes into a dotted quarter note.
No mean feat!
Jon
I wouldn’t call him a juggler, but David Power has a physical grace, passion and sheer musicality in his playing which is hard to describe, but you know it when you hear it. I’ve seldom heard a piper (and granted, I don’t get out much) who can sustain all that through an entire solo performance and hold even the non-pipers in the audience in thrall all the while. A true performer who wants you to feel every tune he plays, and he’ll give that gift to anyone who wants to listen, either in the kitchen or the concert hall.
Mark
I whole heartedly agree, David brings a great wealth of heart to his piping.
hello friends of piping! to my mind tiarnan o’duinnchinn is the man.saw him at the Willie Kennedy festival.
Yeeeehah! Let the stalking of my Blue Shirt Cowboy begin (OK, kidding).
I have to agree, Tiarnan O’Duinchinn (sp?) was beyond comprehension at this year’s St. Louis Tionol. And to see him, Tommy, Kieran O’Hare AND Michael Cooney up on stag just chatting about the weather while playing sets … I’m still trying to find my jaw down there on the floor somewhere.