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JANUARY 7, 1928
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The Music Trade Review
A. L. Maresh Resumes the
Maresh Piano Co. Control
Returns to Active Participation in Cleveland Piano Trade After
Absence of Year—Father of M. O. Mattlin Dies—William
Swisser Joins Mason & Hamlin Store
reproduced by the Ainpico throughout the piece.
The remarkable success of the McComb, La.,
branch of the House of Werlein, led the firm
to extend to the music lovers of that town an
"appreciation concert," presenting Mine. Schaff-
ner with Miss Rose Dirmann, a New Orleans
soprano who has made considerable stir in the
musical concert and operatic field. Parham
Werlein, himself, was introduced by the Super-
intendent of Schools, Mr. Gibson, and addressed
an audience of at least one thousand.
In the afternoon the artists gave a concert in
the High School auditorium for the children of
McComb. This also was a crowded house.
/CLEVELAND, O., January 3.—A. L. Maresh, better known as "Tony," an outstanding figure Ivers & Pond Piano Finds
in the Cleveland music trade, who announce d his intention less than a year ago of retiring
Place in Radio Studio
from the music business, is back in harness again, having assumed control of the Maresh
Piano Co., a business he founded approximately thirty-five years ago. Mr. Maresh, who has ex- BOSTON, MASS., January 3.—An example of
tensive agricultural interests, decided that he would give the younger generation a chance and popular approval accorded to fine piano music
at the same time personally take charge of a large commercial nursery project at Hudson, O., as rendered on an instrument of recognized
quality comes from the listeners who like to
which he was developing. He also felt that he
needed a rest from the cares of the piano busi- pico. The Governor's mansion possesses the hear "The Voice of the Minute Man," which is
ness and consequently put in a manager, but Ampico in the Chickering, and it is constantly the familiar name of the station WLEX in
continued his financial interest in the business, used for the entertainment of the Governor's Lexington, which is ten miles out of Boston.
The instrument used at this station is an Ivers
known as the Maresh Piano Co., on East Fifty- family and friends.
The House of Werlein conceived the idea of & Pond grand which was recently purchased
fifth street, near Broadway.
a series of mansion concerts, comparable with for this purpose. It is of double interest that
r He has now announced that he has again
assumed active charge of the business and will the White House concerts in the National capi- J. P. Stryker, of the Ivers & Pond Co., is one
(Continue. His brother, Charles Maresh, will as- tal. The occasion referred to is the first of of the vocalists frequently heard in radio pro-
grams.
sist him as heretofore. Mr. Maresh states that the series.
Many personages of political and social promi-
he found his agricultural pursuits not as he
had pictured them, with the result that he is nence in the State capital were represented at
Ampico Sales in St. Louis
back at the old stand and is now making ar- this brilliant gathering. So enthusiastic was
rangements for the remodeling of his store and the audience that Mme. Schaffner responded to
The Lehman Piano Co., St. Louis, Knabe
installation of demonstration parlors. The radio seven encores at the close of her last piece.
The program included Brahms and Mosz- dealers, recently made a number of important
department is to be enlarged. A substantial
order has been placed with the Laffargue Piano kowski selections presenting four-hand Ampico sales in that city, including a Knabe Ampico
Co., whose products have been sold by Mr. recordings, in which the primo was played by Grand to Mrs. Ross W. Judson, wife of the
the artist and the secondo by the Ampico, and president of the Continental Motors Co., an
Maresh for many years.
Morris Mattlin, father of M. O. Mattlin, head the Minuet of Grieg recorded by Mme. Schaff- Ampico grand in mahogany to J. E. Taussig,
of the Knabe and Mason & Hamlin Warerooms, ner herself, and so arranged that Mme. Schaff- president of the Wabash Railroad, and a Knabe
passed away after a brief illness. Mr. Mattlin ner alternately played, and her playing was urand Style A to Clifford MacMillan.
had recently returned from an extended trip to
California for his health. All his family were
connected with the piano business. Two sons,
Jack and F. J. Mattlin, are with the Reliable
Music Co., and two sons-in-law, M. Rosen and
Sam Mintz, are also in the business. The Cleve-
land Music Trades Association was represented
at the funeral by President A. L. Maresh, Sec-
retary F. J. Stelkcr and Otto Muehlhauser.
The use of the loud speaker either inside or
outside of stores of any description will be
taboo if an ordinance that is being sponsored
by the Cleveland Music Trades Association is
Your piano prospect can be sold a piano bearing the
passed by Cleveland City Council. A. L. Maresh
name of Hardman, Peck & Co., carrying with it the
will present it. The reason for the move is that
reputation of eighty-six years of fine piano-making.
many stores are using loud speakers not only
for radio music, but for other purposes as well,
Whatever most gratifies their taste—grands, up-
and have become a public nuisance.
rights, players or reproducing pianos—it can be
William Swisser, who for many years was
superlatively satisfied from this single reliable
connected with the piano department of the
source
of supply.
May Co., is now with the Mason & Hamlin
Retail prices that range from $375 to $5,000 mean
Warerooms.
The Muehlhauser Bros. Co. has opened a
that not only will your customers be satisfied as to
radio department and is handling the Stromberg-
style, but also with a price that fits their income.
Carlson line. The company has not handled
Write today for information as to available ter-
radio for several years past, but the demand
ritories
and styles, also booklet "How to Increase
has been so insistent that it finally acceded
Piano Sales."
•to it.
Every interested prospect
becomes a customer;
Ampico in Mansion of
Louisiana Governor
Philip Werlein, Ltd., Arrange for Special Con-
cert by Mme. Schaffner, Together With the
Chickering Ampico—Other Recitals
NF.W ORLEANS, LA., December 24.—The first
lady of Louisiana, Mrs. O. H. Simpson, wife of
the Governor, was'hostess to a gathering in the
Governor's mansion for nearly four hundred
guests Thanksgiving night to hear the eminent
Southern pianist, Eugene Wehrman Schaffner,
in a musical in which the artist played several
of her own recordings on the Chickering An>
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