2004-10-30/2019-02-11 - From the OHS PC Database. - A one-manual, three-rank instrument organ built c. 1790 is attributed to George Astor, no other information is available. Source: No source listed in the database.
2022-11-15/2022-11-15 - George Astor (1752–1813) was born near Heidelburg and moved to London in 1770. He was the London member of a family of musical instrument makers and dealers which were to establish themselves on both sides of the Atlantic. His younger brother John Jacob Astor moved to America in 1783, first dealing in pianos and flutes in Baltimore and then New York. -- information from website, SCHOOL OF MUSIC, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences, Keyboard Institute Collection George Astor was running a music shop between 1798 and 1815 from his ‘warehouse’ at 79 Cornhill in the City of London. -- Goetze & Gwynn website, article on restoration of a George Astor barrel organ. -Paul R. Marchesano
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