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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

Currier

inventor patentee

Biography

Currier is credited in an illustration caption, grouped among a set of plates depicting the era's key patented piano actions and iron frames (alongside Babcock, Loud, and Meyer), with patenting a down-striking square piano action on April 22, 1831. No further biographical detail is given in this portion of the text beyond the patent attribution and the accompanying diagram of the mechanism.

Highlights

  • Patented a down-striking square piano action on April 22, 1831, illustrated in the text

Source

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

Public domain.

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