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...

Along with the University, it is also our state of Alabama that has been blessed to be affiliated with TWO legendary coaches. I don't...

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...

"The South . . . where tea is on ice and folks are nice!" Quote by Sean of the South . . . one reason I love the South AND my beloved...

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...

"Your dad is such a sweet man." "Your dad is such a good man." "Your dad is such a Godly man." "Your dad is a remarkable man." "Your dad...

It was a “Signs, signs, everywhere a sign” morning for me. I took the back roads to work and ran up on a construction site. There were...

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

Concerning Groundhog Day . . . I hear that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow today - that means 6 more weeks of winter. So, Dad tells me...

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....

The theme of this song, written by my Dad in 1959, is a universal one: someone is crying over a broken heart. EVERYONE has had a broken...

Wear your purple sweater today, a small, calm voice inside of me said as I got out of bed to get dressed for the day. "But, that sweater...

In 1959, the Dadeville High School Future Farmers of America Club commissioned my Dad to write a song for their club band to play in a...

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...