... the mallet with a hinge of vellum; f is the string on which rests the damper g, except when the key is depressed, raising the pin i beneath the damper-lever, which has a vellum hinge. The names of Broadwood . Stodard, and Collard are familiar as English inventors and makers in succeeding years. Gieb, in 1736, invented the grasshopper action. In America we have Steinway and Chickering, Knabe and many ...