The company F. Arthur Uebel GmbH (FAU) is a German manufacturer of clarinets with headquarters in Wiesbaden and production facilities in Markneukirchen (Saxony).
[2] The latter was the son of the woodwind instrument maker Friedrich Gustav Uebel (1855-1915) and had learned the craft of clarinet making in his father's workshop.
[1] In the course of the liquidation, the music wholesaler Arnold Stölzel GmbH in Wiesbaden, managing director Jürgen Stölzel, acquired the rights to the name as well as the design and production documents in 2005 and then, also with the help of former Uebel employees, had a very modern production facility built in China,[6] where Uebel clarinets were prefabricated from around mid-2006 under the direction of a German master clarinet maker and from materials supplied by Germany, which were then finished in Wiesbaden and distributed.
[7] In 2010 Jürgen Stölzel founded the current company in Wiesbaden with a branch in Markneukirchen and set up a workshop there, where Uebel clarinets are also again manufactured.
Well-known F. A. Uebel players include: Giora Feidman, Alexander von Hagke [de], Ricardo Morales,[11] Danny Goldman, Evgeny Petrov, Nicholas Carpenter, Björn Nyman, Danila Yankovsky, David Rowden, Gerald Kraxberger, Thomas Watmough, Thorsten Skringer, Giovanni Bertoni, Mitchel Berick and Michael Kirby.