Klarinet Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 2008/03

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] German system clarinet
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:30:51 -0500

I would say yes. Uebel is a very good make, still in Markneukirchen. Looks
like it was used in a Nazi police band :). Yes the mouthpiece almost
certainly takes a German reed (narrower than French) bound on with string.

Keith Bowen

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[mailto:klarinet-return-92959-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On Behalf
Of Peter Gentry
Sent: 07 March 2008 19:27
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] German system clarinet

I have acquired an old German system clarinet from my father in law's
effects. He "liberated" this piece during WW2 but no-one knows just where.

It has a holster rather than a case which can be attached to a belt.

The rather indistinct makers markings are

B
F G UEBEL
Wohlhausen
Markneukirchen

But it also has some other markings :

Hess
Landespolizai
1934

The mouthpiece looks as though the reeds may have been bound rather than
using a ligature.

The wood is rather dry but there are no cracks and the keys are all present
and correct with no bends or marks.
One of two pads have come unstuck and one spring is missing. Surprisingly it
does "play".

Is this instrument worth an overhaul?

regards
Peter Gentry

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