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The Mayron Cole Music Conservatory, Inc.
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Owners: Mayron & Colleen Cole
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Yrs in Business: 35 years |
URL: www.pianomadeeasy.com
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Email: mayroncole@mcpiano.com
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Phone: 800-527-6873
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What does your company offer? ... The
Mayron Cole Music Conservatory, Inc. publishes and markets to schools
and private piano studios a group piano teaching method written and
illustrated by Mayron Cole. Currently, the company publishes over 270
products, including a seventeen volume piano teaching method, music
theory games, teacher manuals, orchestrated accompaniment disks, solos,
multi-keyboard ensembles, business manuals, and training videos for
group piano instruction. Mayron Cole's newest product is Piano Made
Easy ® which premiered March 2006. Piano Made Easy is an educational
computer program that is marketed with a high-end small piano keyboard
and an instructional, animated computer CD. |
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How did your company come to be? ... Mayron
began teaching piano in 1969 while her children were small and her
husband was finishing his specialty training in orthopedic surgery. It
soon became evident to Mayron that teaching one piano student at a time
was boring for her and for the student, so she began grouping students
according to their ages and abilities and teaching them in small
groups. There was little to no appropriate group piano teaching
material available at that time, so Mayron began writing her own
material. She'd write piano music and theory sheets every morning and
teach that material in the afternoons. The students' renewed enthusiasm
and lesson preparation for the group classes was awesome.
Her
piano studio enrollment grew quickly and had to be moved out of her
home. That's when a duplex apartment building was purchased close by,
and The Mayron Cole Music Conservatory, Inc. was incorporated. Teachers
soon heard of Mayron's highly successful piano method and asked Mayron
to sell it to them and to train them to teach it. By 1984, The Mayron
Cole Piano Method had acquired a national base. Teacher training
seminars were held throughout the country, and more teachers began
purchasing their teaching supplies from The Mayron Cole Music
Conservatory, Inc. Eventually, Mayron retired from teaching to run the
publishing division of her business and to develop new products. In
2001 her husband, Dr. Bill Cole, retired from his practice of
orthopedic surgery, and he and Mayron moved the publishing company to
her hometown of Gonzales, Tx. |
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How did Piano Made Easy ® come to be? ... Mayron's
approach to teaching piano has always been built on three basic steps:
learn to play/count rhythms correctly; learn the location of the keys
on the keyboard; learn to read staff notes. Mayron had long dreamed of
creating an animated computer program that would teach beginner
pianists the first two steps. In 1990, she wrote the lesson concepts,
music and lyrics for Piano Made Easy. But the computer program involved
eleven CDs and had inferior graphics. Piano Made Easy was shelved until
2001.
In 2001 Colleen Cole, Mayron and Bill's daughter,
returned to Texas from a six-year career in film production in Los
Angeles. Mayron was confident that technology had caught up with her
computer program vision, so she called Colleen and asked her to direct
the renewed Piano Made Easy project. Colleen became a partner on the
project and put together a great crew. Award winning graphics artist,
Chris Mayes, agreed to do the illustrations; MobiusDV of Houston wrote
the program code; and Colleen wrote the script and served as director
using Mayron's compositions, lyrics and lesson concepts. It took the
team five years to bring Piano Made Easy to life. "It was a labor of
love! Piano Made Easy has won many awards in the toy industry,
including a Platinum Award from Family Review Center. Piano Made Easy
features a zany zookeeper and his dog. These two characters take the
player through a beautiful zoo where all the animals have hidden music.
After teaching a music concept to the viewer, the viewer is invited to
click around on some of the zoo animals and find the hidden music. When
the music pops up on the computer screen, the viewer is invited to play
along on the small piano keyboard that is included with Piano Made
Easy. There are fifty-seven original, orchestrated compositions to
learn, plus ten music theory games to play. Our goal is to eventually
make Piano Made Easy available for every child in the world! A big
goal, but-why not?" says Mayron Cole. "The world would be a better
place if everyone played the piano, don't you think?"
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How is your company unique? ... "I
think ours is the only music publishing company that specializes in
group piano teaching material. Our company also sells all the other
products needed to run a successful group piano studio, so for the
group piano teacher, we are the place to shop! But when I first started
writing music, my dream was to have one of the large publishing
companies contract with me to print and distribute my music and mail me
royalty checks. But that is a very difficult goal to achieve, I quickly
discovered. So I began selling my music over my website that my
husband, Bill, created and still maintains daily. Bill also listed The
Mayron Cole Piano Method on major search engines. The search engines
are a real key to success! I have found that the web offers an
independent company such as mine the chance to succeed. Our company has
a large warehouse, shipping area, and an office with workers answering
phones, but we do a tremendous amount of business over the web and our
800 phone line. We built our company on fast, competent service! I
encourage all entrepreneurs who have a dream to build that dream on the
web! We live in a marvelous age today!"
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Tell us about you, your family ...?
... "My husband and I work each day in our publishing business along
with our daughter, Colleen, who owns a home nearby. Colleen purchased
20% of my company last year and is now my business partner. Our other
daughter, Ellisa, lives in Germany with her husband and three young
sons. "I am currently writing and illustrating a piano method for adult
beginners. I hope to have it completed within the next six months and
available in bookstores nationwide. I play the piano each Sunday
morning for the First Baptist Church in Gonzales, Tx. Bill teaches an
adult men's Sunday School class and also plays drums in some local
cowboy bands. We love living in a small town with the slower paced
lifestyle. |
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Family Review Center is pleased to feature The Mayron Cole Music
Conservatory, both in the featured company article and in the review
center. The Mayron Cole Music Conservatory is a company that is
dedicated to inspiring and enabling children in the quest for learning
piano.
Stop by and check out their REVIEW and their WEBSITE. You will be so glad you ran across them! ¶
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