F. Arthur Uebel

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F. Arthur Uebel GmbH
legal form GmbH
Seat Markneukirchen
Branch Musical instrument manufacturer
Website http://www.uebel-klarinetten.de

The company F. Arthur Uebel GmbH (FAU) is a German manufacturer of clarinets , headquartered in Saxon Markneukirchen .

history

The company was founded in 1936 by Friedrich Arthur Uebel (1888–1963), who was a son of the woodwind instrument maker Friedrich Gustav Uebel (1855–1915). At that time he had already founded a company that was continued as a trading company after his death by his sons Gustav Max Uebel (1888–1936) and F. Arthur Uebel . With the death of Max Uebel, however, this trading company was brought into liquidation in 1936 .

While Max Uebel's son, Gerhard Rudolf Uebel (1915–1991), a trained clarinetist, took over part of the company and stayed in Wohlhausen in the business premises that had been established in 1880, F. Arthur Uebel then founded his own company. As a student of the Berlin clarinet maker Oskar Oehler, he took over his customer base and continued to build the Oehler clarinets . The company initially produced with a large part of the old workforce at Markneukirchener Erlbacher Straße 50. This building is currently a listed building .

In 1984 the company was incorporated into VEB Blechblas- und Signalinstrumentenfabrik (VEB B&S). Today the workshop produces clarinets with a German and French (Boehm) fingering system as well as accessories. Various German clarinet models from earlier GDR production were reissued and improved under the same model name after the fall of the Wall , others were new. The product line of Boehm clarinets has been greatly expanded in recent years.

patent

The two forms of the Uebel clarinet with German fingering.

In 1949 Rudolf Uebel applied for a patent for a one-point connection for the B-C sharp trill connection as an innovation for the German clarinet to facilitate playing technique .

Endorser

Well-known FA Uebel players include:

literature

  • Günter Dullat: Clarinets: Basics of their development, systems, models, patents, related instruments, biographical sketches of selected clarinet makers , Bochinsky, 2001, pp. 231–233 [1]
  • Enrico Weller: Wind instrument making in Vogtland from the beginning to the beginning of the 20th century: Investigations and documentation on the history of a branch of the musical instrument industry . Geiger, 2004, ISBN 978-3-89570-986-9 , pp. 257 .
  • Birgit Matuschewski: Chronicle of a thousand years of inventive talent in Saxony: music and instruments . MPR-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-935579-03-2 , pp. 121 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of FAU Archivlink from October 1, 2018. Accessed June 9, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Günter Dullat: clarinets: basic concepts of its development: systems, models, patents: Related Instruments: biographical sketches of selected clarinet makers . Brochinsky, 2001, ISBN 978-3-923639-44-1 , pp. 230-233 .
  3. ↑ Enrico Weller: Wind instrument making in Vogtland from the beginnings to the beginning of the 20th century: studies and documentation on the history of a branch of the musical instrument industry . Geiger, 2004, ISBN 978-3-89570-986-9 , pp. 257 .
  4. ↑ Link to the entry in the patent database .
  5. ↑ Ricardo Morales becomes part of the "F. Arthur Uebel" family , Das Musikinstrument , September 12, 2018