George Small

George Small (1782–1861) was a partner of the Scottish piano manufacturing firm of Muir, Wood and Company, an Edinburgh magistrate and a philanthropist.

Early life George Small was born on 26 May 1782 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of George Small and Ann Spalding.

As a youth Small joined a fencible regiment raised to fight Napoleon Bonaparte, serving for a time in Gibraltar. The couple had several children, including Rev. James Grindlay Small,

Business ventures Muir, Wood and Company was a piano manufacturing and music publishing firm in Edinburgh, Scotland. In addition to pianos, the firm made organs (church, chamber and barrel), harps, violins, cellos, tambourines, triangles, drums and serpents. After Muir's death, Andrew Wood and George Small continued in business, but on a reduced scale, under the name Wood, Small and Company.

Small also served as a member of the Board of Health.