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Help identifying an old A clarinet

Author: M3nsion
Date: 2022-06-16 12:24

Can anyone help me identify this old A clarinet? It’s a family heirloom from my great-great-grandfather, who was a professional woodwind player and ran a music shop in New York in his time. My uncle (another woodwind player) had it for many years and said that it was a Buffet and that nobody he had ever taken it to had been able to identify it.

The strange thing is that the Buffet logo doesn’t appear anywhere on the instrument except the barrel, and the barrel fits the instrument a little strangely and makes me wonder if it’s the original barrel at all, and if this is a Buffet or not. The only markings I can see are an “A / L.P” stamped on both joints and the bell, and “K / 4” stamped just above the bottom post on the lower joint (I’m using slashes to indicate one line above another).

Notable distinct features that I see are the single post for the left pinky keys on the lower joint and a lack of an inset into the wood for the register key spring.

Post Edited (2022-06-16 23:06)

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