Klarinet Archive - Posting 000058.txt from 2008/03
From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Uebel Clarinets
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:36:38 -0400
I have an original F.A. Uebel C (# 13572) too and it is indeed the best that
I ever knew.
F.A. (Friedrich Arthur 1888-1963) was the Son of F.G. (Friedrich Gustav,
1855-1915) who collaborated with Oehler from 1888, in effect making his
clarinets, and sent his son to work with Oehler in Berlin. F.A. called
himself the latter's Schueler (pupil, student, disciple) and took over his
clientele (Berlin Philharmonics) after Oehler died in 1936. Hence F.A. is
widely considered the apex of German clarinet making (cf. O. Kroll, Die
Klarinette ...). I also have a 1950s Bb-Clar by F.A. which is very lovely
and an A clarinet by F.G., simple system, which I had completely restored
and love to play for everything pre Brahms (does have rollers but no
E-F#/b-c# mechanism). It sounds ravishing. I also have an early 60s Eb by
F.A. which is very good. My Bb came with an original grenadillo mouthpiece
that I also like very much (of cause all the German mouthpieces have grooves
for the reed twine).
G. Rudolf Uebel was F.A.'s nephew and also made excellent clarinets well
into the GDR period. One of my students has a very nice c-clarinet from
around the mid sixties. It appears, that Max Schnabel (1893-1979) had a
crucial function at the F.A. Uebel workshop in tuning and mouthpiece making.
Please check: Dullat, G.: Klarinetten, Frankfurt am Main, Bochinsky 2001,
pp. 230 ff.
The modern company F.A. Uebel has nothing to do with the original F.A.
workshop except for the name. Their instruments are not bad but lack the
"magic touch" the old masters had. Probably it was just the experience and
time they spent on every single clarinet and mouthpiece they made, and the
constant input by top notch clarinettists which is lacking now. Today I
would think H. Neureiter of Tyrol makes the best Austro-German clarinets
http://members.aon.at/musik-neureiter/start_en.htm. They are gorgeous yet
quite comfortable to play and not nearly as expensive as (West, ex H.)
Wurlitzer's which are not what they used to be anyway.
Best regards
danyel
www.echoton.de/clar.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lytthans" <lytthans@-----.net>
To: "Klarinet Digest (Mail)" <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 11:13 PM
Subject: [kl] Uebel Clarinets
> Michele Zukovsky has a wonderful pre-war Uebel C clarinet. I've played it
> and find it's the best C I've ever come across. She paid an arm and a leg
> for it, but it was worth the price.
>
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> Jim Lytthans, DMA
> Anaheim, CA
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