IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED WHEN LEARNING AND WHEN PRACTISING TO PLAY ON THE PIANOFORTE AND OTHER KEYED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Immanuel Liebich, of Buckingham Road, Brighton,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED WHEN LEARNING
AND WHEN PRACTISING TO PLAY ON THE PIANOFORTE AND OTHER KEYED
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS."
Sealed the 2nd August 1867, and dated the 4th February 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Immanuel Liebich at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th February 1867.
I, IMMANUEL LIEBICH, of Buckingham Road, Brighton, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED WHEN
LEARNING AND WHEN PRACTISING TO PLAY ON THE PIANOFORTE AND OTHER KEYED
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used when
learning and when practising to play on the pianoforte and other keyed
musical instruments; for these purposes gloves fitting the hands of the pupils
are employed. The under parts of the ends of the fingers of the gloves are
open in order that the uncovered part or touch of the fingers may come in
contact with the keys of the musical instrument; on the upper part of the
end of each of the fingers of the gloves there is a weight fixed, so that in
lifting each finger the weight placed and fixed in the glove near the end of
that finger will be raised and so the muscles are exercised.. By thus

page_text: exercising each finger by causing it to lift a weight each time it is raised
great advantage is obtained, the result being that the muscular power of the
fingers of each hand, and also the wrists, is thereby increased.
SPECIFICATION. in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Immanuel Liebich in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd August 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, IMMANUEL
LIEBICH, of Buckingham Road, Brighton, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Immanuel Liebich, Her special licence that I, the said Immanuel Liebich, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Immanuel
Liebich, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS USED WHEN LEARNING AND WHEN PRACTISING TO PLAY ON THE PIANO-
FORTE AND OTHER KEYED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Immanuel Liebich, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Immanuel Liebich, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used when
learning and when practising to play on the pianoforte and other keyed musical
instruments; for these purposes gloves fitting the hands of the pupils are
employed. The under parts of the ends of the fingers of the gloves are open
in order that the uncovered part or touch of the fingers may come in contact

page_text: IMMANUEL LIEBICH. (L.S.)