AN IMPROVEMENT IN THAT PART OF A PIANOFORTE, HARPSICHORD, OR OTHER THE LIKE INSTRUMENT, COMMONLY CALLED THE NAME BOARD
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
FOWLER BROADWOOD, of No. 33, Great Pulteney Street, Golden Square, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Second day of February, in the fifth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry
Fowler Broadwood, Her especial licence that I, the said Henry Fowler
Broadwood, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Fowler Broadwood, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no-others, from time to time and at all times during the terin
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
also in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN THAT PART OF A PIANOFORTE, HARPSICHORD, OR OTHER THE LIKE
INSTRUMENT, COMMONLY CALLED THE NAME BOARD;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Henry Fowler Broadwood, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Fowler Broadwood, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
(which I call a school-room pianoforte) to consist in dividing that part of such
au instrument as aforesaid, which is commonly called the name board, into
two parts, constituting an upper and a lower part, the lower part having upon
it a picture engraved or other representation of a continuation or extension
of the black and white keys, together with the gamut or other useful musical
sign, and turning on pivots or hinges, so that the said representation and signs
may bo turned away from the eye of the performer at pleasure, and still
present to view a perfect name board; and in further compliance with the
said proviso, I, the said Henry Fowler Broadwood, do hereby describe the
manner in which my said Invention is to be performed, by the following state-
ment thereof, reference being bad to the Drawing annexed, and to the figures
and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a front view of that part of a pianoforte, harpsichord, or other
the like instrument, commonly called the name board, and is here seen to be
divided into two parts, an upper and a lower part, the upper part having the
maker's name and address upon it in the usual way, and the lower part
having an engraved representation of a continuation or extension of the black
and white keys with the notes corresponding above them, forming the gamut
and vocal scale. Figure 2 is a section of Figure 1; A being the upper, and B
the lower part of the name board as improved by me. C is a small head on
the lower front edge of the upper part, and D is a pivot on which it turns ;
E is a spring, which, acting on the under side of the lower part of the name
board, keeps it steady when brought to its proper position either for shewing
or concealing the gamut and scale or other musical sign.
And whereas I claim as my Invention the improvement herein-before
described in that part of a pianoforte, harpsichord, or other the like instrument,
commonly called the name board, whereby the eye of a learner on such
an instrument is more readily directed to the corresponding note of the
gamut or scale, and whereby also I can turn the said gamut or scalo
away from view at pleasure, and thus greatly facilitate instruction in music,
and such my Invention being to the best of my knowledge and belief
entirely new, and never before used within that part of Her said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her said
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, nor in any of Her
said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, I do hereby declare this to

page_text: be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said
Specification doth comply in all respects fully and without reserve or disguise
with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent
contained, wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege
to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Fowler Broadwood, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this First day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-two.