John Ruck
maker
inventor
Biography
John Ruck was one of the small New York piano-makers active in the years before large manufacturing firms came to dominate the trade around 1855. Spillane describes him as a clever inventor, one of several lesser-known makers whose names remained known in various connections into later years.
Highlights
- Described by Spillane as a clever inventor among New York's small piano-makers of the era
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 197.
Public domain.