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Ara Pravis clarinets

Author: vintschevski
Date: 2006-11-21 13:09

Hello! I'd be very grateful for any information that anybody might be able to give me about "Ara Pravis" clarinets.
I've been told great things about a certain one-piece clarinet (full-Boehm, apparently) said to be about a hundred years old, but which has no maker's name on it. The gentleman who owns it says that he was told by an American that it was definitely an Ara Pravis. I've not been able to find any reference to such instruments. Or is this an American joke of some sort that is not immediately comprehensible to Aussies?
I've seen the recent discussion of Buffet one-piece clarinets of a similar vintage and have thus developed the suspicion (really based on no firm evidence whatsoever) that this particular clarinet might be a Buffet intended to be stencilled (for Carl Fischer, for example), but which somehow slipped through without any stencil.
As I said, I'd be very grateful for any enlightening comments on this.
Thanks, folks!!

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