<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Hello._____________.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>  To the person who ask for information on the</DIV> <DIV>"J.Ruck" piano. Sorry,  I deleted you post.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>  John Ruck was in business with Henry Reichard </DIV> <DIV>for a short time in 1843. He was then the sole owner</DIV> <DIV>of the factory.</DIV> <DIV>   He was awarded a U.S. patent for a rapid repetition</= DIV> <DIV>action in 1851.</DIV> <DIV>   He entered his pianos in the New York Exhibition</DIV= > <DIV>in 1853.</DIV> <DIV>   Ruck may have been a member of the Ruck piano</DIV> <DIV>building family of Paris. This family built pianos until </DIV> <DIV>1930.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regard's</DIV> <DIV>Jack Wyatt</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>