====== Keyboard Player Patents ====== ^Number^Description^Inventor^Filed\\\\\\^Issued^Assignee^Instrument/\\ Comment^ |{{patent>145793}}|Improvement in Piano and Organ Attachments|Léon J. Frémaux|Jul 26, 1873|Dec 23, 1873| | | |{{patent>215155}}|Improvement in Self-Playing Attachments for Key-Board Instruments|Edward Forbes O'Neill|Jan 17, 1879|May 6, 1879| | | |{{patent>216429}}|Improvement in Attachments for Musical Instruments|Mason J. Matthews|Mar 13, 1879|Jun 10, 1879|Mason & Hamlin Organ Company| | |{{patent>218663}}|Improvement in Automatic Attachments For Key-Board Musical Instruments|J. Wright Chambers|Dec 14, 1878|Aug 19, 1879| | | |{{patent>223387}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Christopher C. Reynolds|May 27, 1879|Jan 6, 1880|himself and William G. Young| | |{{patent>224152}}|Automatic Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|William J. Crane|Jul 10, 1879|Feb 3, 1880|Charles W. Barker| | |{{patent>227083}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Joseph F. White|Dec 4, 1879|Apr 27, 1880|E.P. Needham & Son| | |{{patent>227461}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Joseph F. White|May 27, 1879|May 11, 1880|E.P. Needham & Son| | |{{patent>231723}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|John E. Jones|Feb 13, 1880|Aug 31, 1880|A.L. Stetson| | |{{patent>236830}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Francis E. Moore|Jun 3, 1880|Jan 18, 1881| | | |{{patent>255609}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Gilbert R. Elliott|May 6, 1881|Mar 28, 1882|one-half to Joseph A. Harris| | |{{patent>261360}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|George B. Kelly|Apr 10, 1882|Jul 18, 1882| | | |{{patent>269810}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Francis E. Moore|Mar 30, 1888|Dec 26, 1882|Edward L. Rand| | |{{patent>277067}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Joseph Schwertner|Jan 22, 1883|May 8, 1883| | | |{{patent>280043}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Sylvester Jenkins|Aug 20, 1882|Jun 26, 1883| | | |{{patent>290430}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Jethro Matson Hooper|Mar 29, 1883|Dec 18, 1883| | | |{{patent>299492}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Edward Forbes O'Neill|Oct 2, 1863|May 27, 1884|himself and Ira D. Cady| | |{{patent>326412}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|William R. Eddington|Mar 14, 1884|Sep 15, 1885| | | |{{patent>326413}}|Mechanical Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|William R. Eddington|Mar 14, 1884|Sep 15, 1885| | | |{{patent>364041}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Henry Richards|Sep 10, 1880|May 31, 1887| | | |{{patent>371422}}((Patented in France Oct 31, 1884 No. 165133, in England Jun 10, 1885 No. 7096, in Belgium Jun 12, 1885 No. 69244, in Germany Jun 23, 1885 No. 34101, in Austria-Hungary Oct 27, 1885 No. 21869, No. 51022))|Mechanical Key-Board Player|Jules Carpentier|May 28, 1867|Oct 11, 1887| | | |{{patent>419690}}((Patented in France Sep 27, 1887 No. 186094, in Belgium Sep 28, 1887 No. 79024, in England Oct 4, 1887 No. 13424))|Mechanical Key-Board Player|Gustave Paul Le Dan|Jan 9, 1889|Jan 21, 1890| | | |{{patent>428244}}((Patented in Germany Nov 12, 1886 No. 41036 and Jan 9, 1887 No. 41933))|Apparatus For Playing Key Instruments|Paul Ehrlich|Sep 2, 1887|May 20, 1890|The Fabrik Leipziger Musikwerke (Paul Ehrlich & Co.)|Ariston| |{{patent>430065}}|Key-Board Self-Playing Attachment|Joseph D. Case and Clark W. Evans|Sep 10, 1886|Jun 10, 1890| | | |{{patent>434384}}|Key-Board Attachment for Pianos|Casper De Vilbiss|Mar 21, 1890|Aug 12, 1890| | | |{{patent>440995}}|Key-Board Attachment for Musical Instruments|Casper De Vilbiss|Aug 5, 1890|Nov 18, 1890| | | |{{patent>476197}}|Mechanical Attachment for Pianos and Organs|John Emery Harriman, Jr.|Feb 28, 1891|May 31, 1892|one-fourth to John N. Webb| | |{{patent>514259}}|Attachment for Musical Instruments|George Brown|Sep 27, 1893|Feb 6, 1894| | | |{{patent>523829}}|Automatic Organ-Player|John August Brodin|Nov 27, 1893|Jul 31, 1894| | | |{{patent>531413}}|Mechanism for Actuating Keyboards by Means of Perforated Cards|Claude Gavioli|May 3, 1894|Dec 25, 1894| | | |{{patent>556519}}|Musical Instrument|Daniel H. Rowe|Sep 30, 1895|Mar 17, 1896| | | |{{patent>592641}}|Automatic Piano-Player|William D. Parker and Edward H. White|Apr 5, 1897|Oct 26, 1897|Edward H. White| | | |{{patent>653529}}|Automatic Piano or Organ Player|Charles W. Richards|Feb 3, 1900|Jul 10, 1900| | | |{{patent>663118}}|Pneumatic Piano-Playing Action|James W. Crooks|May 16, 1900|Dec 4, 1900|James W. Crooks, Ernest M. Skinner and Winchester Veazie| | |{{patent>681730}}|Electric Piano-Player|Timothy B. Powers|Jul 11, 1900|Sep 3, 1901|The Magnetic Piano Company| | |{{patent>685245}}|Keyboard-Player|Ernst Ludwig Georg Carl Theodor Bielefeldt and Richard Friedrich Ernst Leopold Silwar|May 20, 1901|Oct 29, 1901| | | |{{patent>730504}}|Keyboard-Operator|Otto Adolf Wolters|Feb 4, 1903|Jun 9, 1903| | | |{{patent>779323}}|Piano-Player|Frederick Sheppy|Jun 20, 1904|Jan 3, 1905|one-half to Edwin Gordon| | |{{patent>840048}}|Instrument for Playing Organs or Harmoniums|James Henry Dawe|Dec 30, 1903|Jan 1, 1907|Panels Limited| | |{{patent>868740}}|Electrical Piano-Playing Attachment|Joseph Weber|Sep 14, 1905|Oct 22, 1907| | | |{{patent>893710}}|Autopneumatic Music-Playing Instrument|Walter R. Crippen|Jul 11, 1907|Jul 1908|Fred W. Moore| | |{{patent>1504531}}|Piano-Player|Henry Thompson and William R. Oyston|Nov 18, 1920|Aug 12, 1924|Henry Thompson| | |{{patent>1643562}}((Filed in Germany Mar 29, 1924))|Keyboard Musical Instrument|Stanislaus Kucharski|Apr 1, 1925|Sep 27, 1927| | | |{{patent>2488170}}|Automatic Player Mechanism for Musical Instruments|Peter T. Calamari and Paul F. Murdock|Mar 10, 1949|Nov 15, 1949|The Aeolian Company| | |{{patent>2953957}}|Piano Player|Lee B. Skinner, William H. Williams and John A. Westfield|Dec 12, 1955|Sep 27, 1960| | |