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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

C. R. Elias

inventor patentee

Biography

In Spillane's appendix list of piano-trade patents, C. R. Elias of Chicago is recorded as patentee of a Touch Regulator for Pianos, No. 405,465, issued June 18, 1889. No other biographical detail about Elias appears in this text.

Highlights

  • Patented a Touch Regulator for Pianos (No. 405,465), Chicago, June 1889

Source

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 369.

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