Author: MichaelW
Date: 2015-06-28 17:12
F.G.Uebel had his workshop at Wohlhausen and partly worked for and with Oskar Oehler. Instruments marked F.G.Uebel sometimes are offered at the auction site, but not so much sought after. His more prominent son F.Arthur Uebel in 1936 opened his own workshop at Markneukirchen. He won great reputation (Enrico Weller: "Erste Adresse des deutschen Klarinettenbaus", "First name in German clarinet manufacture", Rohrblatt 8, 1993) and died in 1963. The FAUe- clarinets from that era (ca.#8000 to #17800) are excellent as I can tell from own experience.
Then the workshop was taken over by a GDR collective, later on state owned, and the quality, with some exceptions, decreased (my son owns a fine set from 1984, top model 700, especially marked as "Artist's instrument").
After the end of GDR (1990) the brand was continued under varied private ownerships. Today it belongs to the Arnold Stölzel company from Wiesbaden, Germany. They offer a wide range of models which they say are continuously improved. They seem to be back in Markneukirchen for some time now, with their top models and final checks at least, and are entering the US market:
( http://www.uebelusa.com/
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=422900&t=422900 )
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