Samuel Herve
inventor
Biography
Samuel Herve is credited by Spillane, citing Hipkins, with inventing the fixed string pin-plate in 1821, an innovation that the Broadwood firm applied to square pianos the following year with effective results. No further biographical detail is given.
Highlights
- Credited with inventing the fixed string pin-plate in 1821, later applied by the Broadwoods to squares in 1822.
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 42.
Public domain.