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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

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.

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