C. M. Richards
inventor
patentee
Biography
According to Spillane's appendix list of piano-trade patents, C. M. Richards of Fort Scott, Kansas, was granted patent No. 407,035 for a Shifting Piano Action on July 16, 1889. No other biographical detail about Richards is given in this text.
Highlights
- Patented a Shifting Piano Action (No. 407,035), Fort Scott, Kan., July 1889
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 369.
Public domain.