the lamont harp was presented to the robertson family of lude 1460-1464 as part of a marriage dowry to charles robertson of lude (or of clune). the lamont harp was handed down in the robertson family and remained at lude in perthshire until 1805, when both the lamont harp and the queen mary harp were sent to edinburgh. in 1880 both clarsachs were deposited by a john stewart of dalguise in the national museum of edinburgh now the museum of scotland, where they remain to this day.