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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-02-18 03:02
<b>Uebel, F. Arthur</b> WWI <i>fl</i> Markneukirchen <i>a</i>1937-<i>p</i>1950.
Trained under O. Oehler. Specialist in clarinet.
INVENTION:
<i></i>c1940: forked F mechanism for clarinet, improving Oehler's mechanism
1941: "pure" forked F mechanism for clarinet
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Author: donald nicholls
Date: 2002-02-18 08:35
man, i drove through Markneukirchen once... crazy town that! I played a pair of Uebel Boehm clarinets in 1984, i had them for a week and decided not to buy them, they were pretty good though- the desicion was entirely financial. I wonder if this pair were made by Herr Arthur Uebel or as part of a factory line using that name? They had an excellent clear and rich tone and i remember my teacher could cresc from pp to ff while the sound changed very little.
nzdonald
(i really did drive through Markneukirchen, but Herr Uebel was long gone by that time)
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-02-18 12:48
There are a good many Uebels making clarinets, not just the one company. I had a request for that particular one.
Markneukirchen has maybe 60 or 70 makers of woodwinds there.
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Author: Yankeeman
Date: 2002-02-20 13:58
Don Quijote:
The one you picked up must have either been a bad one or something else went wrong, because F. Arthur Uelbel in Markneukirchen is the F. Arthur Uelbel company that was in East Germany and generally, they make pretty good instruments.
If you remember the logo on the one you played, look at their website and you'll see it is still the same. www.f-arthur-uebel.de
The only difference I see is that they may have quit making Bohms in favor of the German system.
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2002-02-21 11:18
I am a dedicated Uebel user. I only play Bb and I have a somewhat tweaked Uebel 631 21 key Oehler with the left hand Bb/F removed which I use for the majority of my work. I have had a few different models and find them a little difficult to play but the end result is great. Uebel are a serious clarinet maker supplying many different models and sizes and are one of the most prolific makers in Europe. Some of their professional models are used in preference to Hammerschmidt by some players. Their mouthpieces are kind of ordinary however.
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Author: donald nicholls
Date: 2002-02-22 09:27
people often "bad mouth" German bore clarinets because they tested them out using a French style mouthpiece. Murray Khouri, for instance, has raved on about how bad various Hammerschmidt, Wurlitzer etc clarinets are.... but played them with Selmer and Vandoren French bore mouthpieces, hardly a recipe for success! If you're going to do these instruments justice, you have to "go the whole distance" and use mouthpieces/reeds that are appropriate.
nzdonald
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