[atlantaprog] Musical pedigree?

It has suddenly come to my realization that for so few
people in the world with the surname of KARGEL, there
seems to have been a lot of them who have been (or
are) musicians...and a lot of them far better than
me...!

This is what a simple online search of my surname
revealed (and what I am listing are musicians
only...there are more references for scientists than
anything else online):



OK, besides myself...here is an obvious one:  my own
sister Beth Kargel!  


Beth Kargel:  Keyboards/Percussion/Backing Vocals for
Atlanta-based band Silent Kids.

http://www.silentkids.com



Micheal Kargel:  Drummer for German country-rockabilly
band Smokestack Lightnin'.

http://www.smokestacklightnin.web.ag/  (this link
appears out of date...I could not get this website to
come up, and I could find no other link that showed an
official website...but I could find evidence that the
band has been actively playing in the past year)





Ines Kargel:  Austrian avant-garde electronic
musician.  Both solo artist and collaborator with
musician Fabian Neuhaus.

She is probably the most "progressive" of everybody
here, in my opinion...!

http://www.kargel-neuhaus.net






*** This is the oldest reference to a Kargel who was
also a musician...and to me the most interesting, as
this is also the earliest reference I could find
online for my surname PERIOD:

Sixtus Kargel, actually Kärgel  (yes umlauts over the
"a"...perhaps the original spelling of my surname?)


This fellow was a composer for music for the lute,
cittern and classical guitar.  


The earliest known reference for him is for a
composition originally written in 1569!


  http://www.earlycittern.com
  http://www.earlycittern.com/about/index.html



The Spanish classical guitar website,
www.clubguitarra.com has this to say about him
(translated via AltaVista Babelfish):

SIXTUS KARGEL
(1540 - 1594) 
German Laudista born in Zabern, was one of the
publishers whom the Jobin printer of Strasbourg had.

From 1574 he was laudista of langrave of Alsacia, and
from 1593 of the prince-bishop of Zabern; it published
two collections for laúd (1574, 1586) and other two
for cistro (1575, 1578), and composed few fantasies
for laúd.

"Laud" and "laudista" I think were untranslatable by
Babelfish, but I think means "lute", and "cistro" is
"cittern".

Based on this and references to compositions, he spent
a great deal of time in Strassburg/Strasbourg,
Alsace...which has been shifted between Germany and
France on and off through the centuries.  His
birthplace, Zabern/Saverne, is, according to online
sources, rather close to the city.




That was interesting and fun!


Regards,

Bill






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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet 
sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit 
are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be 
trusted." --William Shakespeare 
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Bill Kargel

wkargel@xxxxxxxxx

Visit my homepage at http://www.geocities.com/wkargel

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