New York, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Department of Musical Instruments

Organ by Laurentium Hauslaib, 1598
Information from Museum Label

Claviorganum 
Laurentium Hauslaib 1598 

Wood and various materials 

Length parallel to keyboard 66.1 cm, 
Width perpendicular to keyboard 28.1 cm, 
D. 9.5 cm, 3-octave span 49.3 cm; 

Sounding lengths (plucking points): 
     c/e 58.5 (6.6) cm 
     c2 30.4 (6.5) cm 
     a3 8.9 (3.9) cm 

Object Place: Nuremberg, Germany, Europe 
The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 

CLAVIORGANUM 
Laurentius Hauslaib, Nuremberg, 1598 

The velvet-covered ebony cabinet contains an organ with four ranks of pipes controlled by 
levers at the left of the keyboard; the empty space above holds a polygonal octave virginal 
with painted soundboard. The top of the cabinet conceals the organ bellows. A small door 
surrounded by drawers frames a brass panel depicting the Deposition from the Cross. This 
instrument was probably played in a small chamber; its builder worked at the court of 
Friedrich IV, elector of the Palatinate. 

The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889. 89.4.1191