 When George Worgan sailed on the Sirius with the First Fleet he took with him a piano.He was amongst the musicians who played "God Save the King" at Sydney Cove on 7 February 1788 making him one of the first non-Aboriginal musicians in the country.While in New South Wales he taught music to Elizabeth Macarthur (teaching her to play "God Save the King" and "Foote’s Minuet"), leaving his piano with her when he returned to England in 1791.