Some others, notably Brother Gildas O'Shea of Kerry, disdained Touhey's style as outside the tradition. Asked whether Touhey's recordings had influenced his own playing, Gildas replied, "No, I was learning the "pipes" at the time." However generally pipers were in awe of Touhey's playing; Séamus Ennis, writing in the liner notes of Dublin fiddler Tommy Potts's Liffey Banks LP, said that he and his father considered Touhey's playing "hyper-phenomenal," and that he considered Touhey "the best of the men who came before my father."