Loretta Pritchard
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
Aug 124 min read
The $100 Bill: A Tribute to my Beautiful Aunt Dorothy
Go take your brother a hundred dollars; he needs it. This is the message from the Good Lord that Aunt Dorothy McKelvey kept getting.
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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...
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Loretta Pritchard
Apr 81 min read
My Oldest Friend
“My Oldest Friend” is probably not the title my dear friend, Eleanor Trafton, would want to proclaim, but I enjoy telling everyone that,...
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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...
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Loretta Pritchard
Feb 151 min read
I'm Awake!
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...
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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
Aug 9, 20232 min read
It's A Miracle
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...
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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
Feb 22, 20221 min read
Black History Month - DeFord Bailey
In recognition of Black History Month, I have to target Music History in this category. This photo was taken March 15, 1975, backstage at...
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Loretta Pritchard
Dec 17, 20213 min read
God Can Handle It!
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....
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Loretta Pritchard
Jan 11, 20212 min read
The Heart
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...
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Loretta Pritchard
Oct 29, 20203 min read
My Halloween Trick & Treat
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...
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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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Loretta Pritchard
Oct 25, 20192 min read
To Tell or Not To Tell - Waiting On God's Timing
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...
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Loretta Pritchard
May 24, 20198 min read
When the Planets Line Up
Recently, Dr. Jovanni-Rey de Pedro, Assistant Professor of Piano and Pedagogy at Samford University here in Birmingham, stumbled on to my...
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Loretta Pritchard
May 16, 20182 min read
God Is Good
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...
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