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Re: Uebel 621 (German system)

Author: donald
Date: 2019-03-03 13:44

F. Arthur Uebel was one of the student/apprentice makers who learnt from Oskar Oehler. Uebel clarinets were certainly professional instruments in the first half of the 20th century. In the latter half the firm continued to make pro level instrument, but also student level horns (and the name was also associated with some mass produced instruments). Interestingly they were making reasonably good Boehm system clarinets until at least the 1980s.
These instruments had a German bore in that it remained parallel for longer in the lower joint (and thus required the double f/c pad for extra venting, and had keywork more closely resembling "full boehm" than "reform boehm" which kept the price down.
They varied in design - with the more expensive models being very well made, but acoustically were too resistant for most boehm players, and tended to make a great sound but within limited dynamic boundaries.
I don't know if these were common in the USA but a few pairs turned up in NZ, and for a while I owned an A clarinet I bought from a German fellow (from the East) that had very good build and intonation, with the limitations described above. The ones I have seen/owned were all made prior to the 1980s, had excellent keywork and played with a distinctly "German" tone quality.

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