Wm. D. Parker

inventor

Biography

Wm. D. Parker of Meriden, Connecticut, employed by the Wilcox & White Company, applied on October 16, 1891 for a patent on an automatic piano; the patent was granted March 8, 1892. It covered a combination piano adapted for either manual or automatic operation, using a pneumatic operating mechanism controlled by a perforated music sheet, with the wind-inducing apparatus permanently built into the instrument's structure so as not to interfere with ordinary manual playing. This interior player mechanism was manufactured by the Wilcox & White Company of Meriden and sold to piano dealers under the name 'Angelus Piano Player,' distributed to dealers in cities including Boston and Philadelphia.

Highlights

Of Meriden, Conn., in the employ of the Wilcox & White Company
Applied October 16, 1891 for a patent on an automatic piano, granted March 8, 1892, for a combination piano playable manually or automatically
His mechanism was manufactured by Wilcox & White and sold to dealers as the 'Angelus Piano Player'

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), pp. 137, 138.

Public domain.

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