EDUCATION

Loretta Pritchard

Nov 42 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

Loretta Pritchard

May 302 min read

A Diamond Day at Ellis Piano

It was another "things to wake you up on the job" moment for me today at Ellis Piano when this very sweet, humble lady came back to the...

Loretta Pritchard

Mar 271 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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