His love of music was inherited by his second daughter, Susan Euphemia, to whom in 1828 he gave this Pleyel piano, now in the Hamilton Collection at Lennoxlove. Her musical interests were well known. Probably during a visit to Italy in 1821, she was made an honorary member of the Philharmonic Academy. The Lennoxlove Archives still include the Latin diploma she received, the programme, in Italian, for a concert she presumably attended and a document with a paper seal entitled 'C U C Curiante micenio Custode Generale d’Arcadia, all Melita ed Erudita Signora Susanna Eufemia, duchessa D'Hamilton e Brandon, Acclamazione.' In about 1835 Willes Maddox painted her sitting at a piano.

Susan Beckford had married the future 10th Duke of Hamilton in 1810, and he succeeded to the dukedom in 1819. The Pleyel piano would certainly have been in the duchess's apartments at Hamilton Palace, where many notable musicians, including Frederic Chopin, were guests and no doubt performed.