TablEdit Tablature Editor

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TablEdit Tablature Editor
Design by	Matthieu Leschemelle
Developed by	Matthieu Leschemelle
Initial release	1997
Platform	Windows, Macintosh, and Windows Mobile (PocketPC)
Website	http://www.tabledit.com/

TablEdit Tablature Editor is a computer program that allow musicians to create, edit, print and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass guitar.

The original TablEdit, released in 1997, was written by Matthieu Leschemelle to aid himself in learning to play guitar music as arranged by Marcel Dadi. As more musicians started using TablEdit, Matthieu got feedback from those users, many of which played other instruments besides guitar. Matthieu responded to their requests and input and as a result, TablEdit is not limited to guitar like other tablature programs. Through ongoing consultation with experts on other instruments, Matthieu has developed support in TablEdit for harmonica, mountain dulcimer, diatonic button accordion, drums, violin, tin whistle, recorder, Xaphoon, autoharp, pedal steel guitar, piano, and banjo (even taking the fifth string into proper consideration.)

TablEdit can open/import ASCII tab, MIDI files, Abc notation, MusicXML, Bucket O' Tab, TabRite, and Wayne Cripps files. Files can be saved in TablEdit format or exported to ASCII tab, HTML, ABC, RTF, MIDI or WAV formats or pasted in to most graphics programs to be saved as JPG, GIF, PNG and most other image formats.

TablEdit runs on Windows, Macintosh, and Windows Mobile (PocketPC).