Organized Piano - Lockboard

Date1799

Maker Longmen, Clementi & Company

MediumMahogany, pine, oak, spruce, fruitwood, limewood, lead, iron, ebony, ivory, brass, copper, leather, silk

Credit LineMuseum Purchase. Conservation of this instrument is made possible by a gift from Constance Tucker and Marshall Tucker in memory of N. Beverly Tucker, Jr.

Object number2012-150,A

ProvenanceOriginally purchased by St. George Tucker for his daughter Fanny, arriving in Williamsburg in 1799. Some evidence suggests that it was purchsed next by Charles Carter of Shirley, c. 1802. The organ was at Castle Hill in Albemarle County, owned by the Rives family by 1815, where it remained until c. 1947, when it was purchased by an unknown individual in the Richmond area. In the 1950s, ownership transferred to DeVeaux Riddick and Robert Watkins; they sold it to CW in 2012.

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