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Loretta Pritchard
Nov 4, 20242 min read
I've Gone Down . . . in history, that is . . .
Last Fall, Dan Fiorentino, Music Historian for NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants), came to Ellis Piano to interview owner/presid
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Loretta Pritchard
May 30, 20242 min read
A Diamond Day at Ellis Piano
Martha Mier is a world-renowned composer of educational piano music and needs no introduction to the piano pedagogy world.
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Loretta Pritchard
Mar 27, 20241 min read
Divinely Orchestrated
My Ellis Piano colleagues and I were waiting on the arrival of Dr. Henry Panion, Professor of Music and Director of the Music Technology...
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Loretta Pritchard
Oct 20, 20232 min read
The Lonely Ghost Needs a Friend
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...
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Loretta Pritchard
Mar 1, 20231 min read
David Foster
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...
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Loretta Pritchard
May 10, 20211 min read
"The Beautiful Shores of Hawaii"
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...
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Loretta Pritchard
Aug 13, 20205 min read
Imagine: Concerning Nadia Boulanger - My Interview with Eleanor Trafton
Imagine that you are a young composer in your early twenties, studying composition with a world- renowned composition teacher, who happens
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Loretta Pritchard
Jun 5, 20203 min read
What Is It Like to Take Piano Lessons?
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
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