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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

Bishop

inventor
  • Bishop & Downe

Biography

Bishop is credited, jointly with Downe, as co-inventor of a keyboard attachment illustrated in Alfred Dolge's chapter on the player piano. The device, dated 1883, is shown in cross-section and internal-mechanism drawings depicting key-actuating machinery attached to a piano keyboard. The text gives no further biographical detail, first name, dates, or nationality for Bishop beyond this joint patent credit.

Highlights

  • Co-credited with Downe for a keyboard attachment for player-piano mechanisms, dated 1883

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), p. 139.

Public domain.

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