Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2006-11-01 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This was a small barrel organ belonging to the wife of Governor Etholen - Margareta. This was in the mid 19th century. -Database Manager
2012-04-29 - Updated through online information from John Speller. -- According to "Letters from the Governor's Wife: A View of Russian Alaska 1859-1862," ed. Annie Constance Christensen, Aarhus University Press, 2005, p. 82," describing the Governor's Residence: "... Then the Ballroom with puce furniture, five large windows, 2 musical clocks & a huge barrel organ, ..." (Letter of Anna Furuhjelm to her mother, Sitka, July 3, 1859). The Governor's Residence survived into United States ownership, but burned down in 1894. -Database Manager
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