Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-11-15 00:15
Robert,
Thanks for sharing your impressions. But search on Google for Uebel Superior II and Uebel Excellence clarinets for that company's latest entries on the pro clarinet market. Both are listed on one version of this site, if you can get it to come up:
http://www.uebel-klarinetten.de/index_en.html.
Uebel is introducing new models, including a "Superior II," which is supposed to have an improved (exactly how?) bore, and an "Excellence" model designed expressly for orchestral playing (so what are the other models designed for?) Also a new student "Etude" plastic model, and a rose gold version of the first Superior model. Are the newer (higher priced?) models better in some way or just more boutique? I guess we'll eventually sort it all out.
In the end, selection of a clarinet has a subjective quality that even the most objective cannot completely discard. Someone I know has a magnificent S&S 1000 Boehm clarinet with all the best wood and intricate venting and I still prefer the way they sound on their old Buffet. (But I won't tell them that).
It's good to know that Behn's barrel is adaptable enough to work on a Uebel,
I commend you for sticking to the performance qualities of the instrument and not worrying about where Uebels are "really" made. Finally, how the thing plays is the most important consideration. Your review has motivated me to try the Uebel offerings again, including the most recent additions if I can find them.
Post Edited (2017-11-15 22:02)
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