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

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...

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...

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...

Imagine that you are a young composer in your early twenties, studying composition with a world- renowned composition teacher, who happens

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...

Driving home from work one night recently, Michael Jackson's song, "You Are Not Alone," comes on the radio, and almost on cue, a spider...

The Christmas song of ALL Christmas songs was never intended to be for the Yuletide season. Jingle Bells, written in 1857 by James Lord...

“I have written a pavane for a dead princess, not a dead pavane for a princess.” Ravel did not mean for this statement about his lovely,...

Music can be a powerful force. Did you know that the beloved patriotic song, “God Bless America,” was influential enough to unify even...

Kristin Kennamer had been an unhappy student in Pharmacy School at Samford University for only a short time when she decided that...