Elliot Grasso did get a very young start on the pipes with good access to the young piper Kieran O'Hare. Kieran had been taken in by Donna Long (Cherish the Ladies) and was making amazing music with Donna's son, Jesse Smith (Danu / The Tap Room Trio). Priorly -that Lion of the Fiddle - Brendan Mulvihill had lived in that abode in Baltimore, Maryland.   They all come by the music honestly.