Smith
piano hammer-felt maker
Biography
Smith was named, together with Chapuis, as one of the principal competitors of Alfred Dolge in the American piano hammer-felt trade during the years before Dolge's patented process came to dominate the field. The text gives no further detail about Smith's background, firm, or fate, unlike Chapuis, who is separately described as having been bought out.
Highlights
- Named as one of Alfred Dolge's principal early competitors in piano hammer-felt manufacture
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 318.
Public domain.