Hermann Tabel

Hermann Tabel (* around 1660; † before May 8, 1738 in London ) was a harpsichord maker . Tabel came from the area of what was then the Netherlands , which included the area of today's Netherlands , Belgium and the area of the Lower Rhine as far as Emden . He was a student in the Couchet workshop in Antwerp, where he learned to make harpsichords. He moved to London around 1700 and settled there. He opened a workshop and is run as a master from 1716. Burkhardt Tschudi and Jacob Kirkman were among his students . Tabel was married twice. His widow Susanna Virgoe married Jacob Kirkman a month after his death, who also took over the workshop, tools and inventory of harpsichords from Tabel.

Preserved instruments

Harpsichord 1721, in the inventory of the County Museum, Warwick

Web links

Donald Howard Boalch and Peter Williams: Tabel, Hermann. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

Individual evidence

^ The Piano: An Encyclopedia . Routledge, 2004, ISBN 978-1-135-94964-8 , pp. 208 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
^ William Dale: Tschudi, the harpsichord maker . Constable and Company, London 1913 (English, digitized version ).
↑ Edward L. Kottick: A History of the Harpsichord . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2003, ISBN 0-253-34166-3 , pp. 358 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Tabel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English harpsichord maker
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1660
DATE OF DEATH	before May 8, 1738
Place of death	London

[1] The Piano: An Encyclopedia . Routledge, 2004, ISBN 978-1-135-94964-8 , pp. 208 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

[2] William Dale: Tschudi, the harpsichord maker . Constable and Company, London 1913 (English, digitized version ).

[3] Edward L. Kottick: A History of the Harpsichord . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2003, ISBN 0-253-34166-3 , pp. 358 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).