| Sigal Music Museum | |
| Former Name: | Carolina Music Museum |
| Location: | Greenville, South Carolina |
| Type: | Music instrument museum |
The Sigal Music Museum (formerly known as the Carolina Music Museum) is a musical instrument museum in Greenville, South Carolina, United States at Heritage Green.[1]
Founded by keyboard collectors Tom and Deborah Strange, with Steven Bichel and Beth Marr Lee, the museum was opened in 2017. It resides in a former bottling plant of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, built in 1930. The museum is located at the only remaining part of the plant which is the front section.[2] [3] [4] The name change came after instrument collector Marlowe Sigal's family donated his private collection of instruments to the museum, valued at $3.1 million, after his death.[5] [6]
Among the collection is a 1761 Jacob Kirkman harpsichord owned by Queen Charlotte that was played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, then aged eight, while his family was in London during their grand tour[7] [8] and an 1845 John Broadwood & Sons grand piano, played by Frédéric Chopin in May 1848 during his tour of Great Britain.[9]