Marshall & Wendell

[Waters]

Hello,

I own a Marshal & Wendell grand piano that is ~5'2" in length. The number on
the Harp is 110019 if anyone cares to look it up in a piano atlas. I don't
know much about this brand and seldom encounter them, so I would much
appreciate any input. It has an unusually light touch and a bright tone; is
that charactoristic of M&Ws? Does anyone know what happened to the business,
or anything else about M&W?

Thanks,
-Gary

[Pianonumbers]

Hi,

Your piano was build in 1928. ( Pierce P.A.)

The first address of the co. was Albany, NY in 1836,
then moved to Central & Water in Rochester, NY.
Became a division of Aeolian-American Corp.
Originally co.-name was Marshall & James Trever.
The last entry in the atlas is 1936 and they made 123600 instruments by
then.
So I guess they went out of business in that year.

Best regards,
--
Walt
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[Waters]

Thank you. Do you happen to know what year Mashal & Wendell became
associated with Aeolian?

-Gary

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[Pianonumbers]

Sorry, I have no record of that.

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Walt
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Gary <wat...@ctaz.com> asked:

> Thank you. Do you happen to know what year Mashal & Wendell became
> associated with Aeolian?

Marshall & Wendell had been an American Piano Co subsidiary since about
1921, so their association with Aeolian Co would only have started when
Aeolian merged with American to form the A-A Corp in 1934.
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[pianoguy]

Gary wrote:
> Do you happen to know what year Marshall & Wendell became
> associated with Aeolian?
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Marshall & Wendell became associated with Aeolian in 1932 when American Piano Company
and Aeolian Piano Company merged into Aeolian American. Prior to that M&W was built
by American Piano Company and was a second line to Chickering and Sons.

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[Waters]

Thanks again guys. What are your impressions of M&W pianos? Were they low,
mid, or high quality in their day? Did merging with Aeolian affect their
quality, and if so, was it for better or worse?

Thanks,
-Gary

<dw...@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Gary <wat...@ctaz.com> asked:
>
> > Thank you. Do you happen to know what year Mashal & Wendell became
> > associated with Aeolian?
>

[dw...@cix.compulink.co.uk]

Gary <wat...@ctaz.com> said, re Marshall & Wendell pianos:

> Thanks again guys. What are your impressions of M&W pianos? Were they
> low, mid, or high quality in their day? Did merging with Aeolian
> affect their quality, and if so, was it for better or worse?

Before 1934, neither Aeolian nor American Piano made a really low-end
piano, though I've seen and heard some pretty uninteresting British
Stecks and American Farrands. The M&Ws were AmPiCo's bread-and-butter
line, but when exported, were durable, chunky, fruity pianos not unlike
their UK cousin the Marshall & Rose (a quite different make with the same
original financier, Sir Herbert Marshall).

After that, things could only go downhill. The trade for good pianos was
wretched and remained so until the 1960s. Only the top names retained any
quality and those didn't include M&W. I believe the name sank from view
altogether around 1937.