NAGEL, HANS [II] (d. c.1532). Sackbut, -1501 - 1504

'Master Hans Nagel with two sons' received a payment of 20 Groschen from the city of Leipzig in 1478. On 10 July the following year they were engaged as Stadtpfeifer at the rate of 40 Gulden p.a. for wages and livery, being obliged to charge no more than 40 Groschen for large weddings and half that sum for small ones. The city made and gilded silver arms that they had to wear during service. The 'sons' in question may have been real ones, or, in the mediaeval sense, apprentices. The Leipzig ensemble visited Augsburg in 1482, where the celebrated Schubinger family of wind players worked. Then, apparently dissatisfied with their pay in Leipzig, the three left in early 1483. Two other Nagels, Jobst and Jorig, perhaps relatives, are recorded at Augsburg in 1504 and 1505.