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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

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.

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