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Re: Resistance with new(used) Uebel clarinet

Author: GavinClarinet
Date: 2021-12-02 15:52

Just wanted to update my post.

I took the clarinet to a tech who did full checkover, corrected a leak in the A key and a couple of pad heights, but also adjusted all the spring tensions correctly and several other things, and it plays vastly better - and presumably how it should.

Should anyone need a good repair tech in SE London, then I can highly recommend Gary Holdsworth (Easy to find online).

I've since been to Howarths and found that a Backun Vocalise R2 works very nicely with the Legere European Cut reed I favour. I was also very tempted by the CG, but it was just slightly too open for me.

So now I know it's all down to me and practise to rediscover my "chops"...

Thanks to everyone for the helpful response.

I'm not quite there yet, since I am now a touch flat across the instrument at 440 so am working on a shorter barrel.

It seems the current Uebels come with a 65m and 63mm barrel, but mine only came with a 65mm.

I tried some Backun 64mm at Howarths but they were no better than the 65mm original, so working on getting a 62 or 63mm barrel to hopefully solve that wrinkle.

One final little query that perhaps someone with recent knowledge of Uebel might know in passing.

My clarinet is noted on the registration card only as a B-888 Serial Number #954xx. I've worked on the assumption that it's effectively a "Classic", but the current range have the model name printed on the top joint in silver inlay - either "Classic", "Advantage", etc.

Mine has only the Uebel logo with no silver inlay.

Google searches seem to suggest that these current models may have been introduced in 2013ish, but mine was purchased in September 2010 from a shop in Darlington according to the card.

Confusingly, B-888 seems to be applied to both Classic and Advantage online, though there is very little information available.

I've emailed Uebel directly, but anyone with the knowledge to confirm that what I have is a Classic, or perhaps a forerunner?

"Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function."

- Victor Borge

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