Instrumental Women

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• Charlton, Elizabeth Culliford
  Worked as a piano string silverer and maker.
• Lukey, Mary
  Mary's husband Charles bequeathed her "two Reels or Machines for silvering Strings" in 1776, suggesting that she may have been a piano string maker.
• Buchholtz, Emilia
• Kober, Maria Anna Ritzler
• Jeßwagner, Rosalia
• Jakesch, Walburga
• Haschka, Theresia
• Bland, Anne
• Eckenroth, Franziska
• Cristoph, Cäcilie
• Biber, Julie Leppert
• Beyer, Mme G.
• Barrett, Mary
• Barrett, Ann
• Astor, Elizabeth Wright
• Anderson, Jane
• Alliaume, Mme
  Known as "La Dame Alliaume." Registered three piano patents in 1846, 1848, and 1849.
• van den Brant Couchet, Angela
• González, Concepción
• Booth, Julia
• Smillie, Ina
• Bailley, Jenny
• Hensley, Violet
• Besson, Marthe Josephine
• Gedney, Anne