Last Fall, Dan Fiorentino, Music Historian for NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants), came to Ellis Piano to interview owner/presid

Go take your brother a hundred dollars; he needs it.  This is the message from the Good Lord that Aunt Dorothy McKelvey kept getting.

Martha Mier is a world-renowned composer of educational piano music and needs no introduction to the piano pedagogy world.

“My Oldest Friend” is probably not the title my dear friend, Eleanor Trafton, would want to proclaim, but I enjoy telling everyone that,...

My Ellis Piano colleagues and I were waiting on the arrival of Dr. Henry Panion, Professor of Music and Director of the Music Technology...

Things to wake you up on the job: When you answer the phone and the voice says, "Hi! I'm the keyboard technician for the rock band...

A teacher came to purchase music today at Ellis Piano, where I am the Music Manager, and told me that she had a seven-year old boy...

In 1987, my hometown friend, Billy Heard, came to our family recording studio, "Studio Z," in Jackson's Gap, AL, and played us a great...

I sat down recently on the job at Ellis Piano and played a Yamaha DCF6. I thought, Wow! This is the best Yamaha I have ever played! It...

In recognition of Black History Month, I have to target Music History in this category. This photo was taken March 15, 1975, backstage at...

Recently, I arrived at work at Ellis Piano and immediately got the sense that I needed to go to the ladies' restroom and check on things....

Despite the wet, cold, dreary weather, the graveside service for my Mom couldn't have been warmer or more beautiful. My Dad and I got in...

Wear your Charlie Brown Halloween shirt today, is what my little voice told me this morning as I woke from not the best night's sleep due...

What is it like to take piano lessons? It is a whole new world! A world filled with a variety of things . . . excitement, adventure, enterta

To tell or not to tell – that was the question I had been asking myself for several weeks. Someone I was concerned about was having some...

Recently, Dr. Jovanni-Rey de Pedro, Assistant Professor of Piano and Pedagogy at Samford University here in Birmingham, stumbled on to my...

Working with the public as I do at Ellis Piano, customers come in quite often and tell me all kinds of things about issues they are...