CPC Definition - Subclass G10D

Last Updated Version: 2022.08
STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (organs, harmoniums or similar wind musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus G10B; pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards G10C; automatic musical instruments G10F; electrophonic musical instruments in which tones are generated by electromechanical means G10H)
Definition statement

This place covers:

General design of stringed musical instruments, e.g. bowed or rubbed string instruments, plucked or strummed string instruments or zithers.

Details of, or accessories for, stringed musical instruments, e.g. slide-bars.

General design of wind-actuated musical instruments, e.g. air reed wind instruments, beating-reed wind instruments, lip-reed wind instruments or free-reed wind instruments.

Details of, or accessories for, wind musical instruments.

Accordions, concertinas or the like; Keyboards therefor.

General design of percussion musical instruments.

Details of, or accessories for, percussion musical instruments.

Combinations of different musical instruments.

Aeolian harps or singing-flame musical instruments.

Musical instruments not otherwise provided for.

Relationships with other classification places

This subclass does not cover pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with keyboards that cause the strings to be struck or plucked, which are covered by subclass G10C.

References
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This place does not cover:

Organs, harmoniums or like musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus

G10B

Pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards

G10C

Automatic musical instruments

G10F

Automatic percussion musical instruments

G10F 1/08

Automatic wind musical instruments

G10F 1/12

Automatic stringed musical instruments other than pianofortes

G10F 1/16

Electrophonic musical instruments in which tones are generated by electromechanical means

G10H

Whistles

G10K 5/00

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Musical toys per se

A63H

Aids for music; Supports for musical instruments; Other separate auxiliary devices or accessories

G10G

Sound-producing devices not regarded as musical instruments

G10K

Special rules of classification

In this subclass, common rule of classification is applied. Subject matter that is characterised by aspects covered by more than one of groups G10D 1/00 - G10D 9/00, G10D 13/00, should be classified in each of those groups.

In this subclass, the specific types of musical instruments are covered in group G10D 1/00, G10D 7/00 or G10D 13/01, while aspects relevant to the arrangements thereof or the accessories therefor are covered in group G10D 3/00, G10D 9/00 or G10D 13/10.

When classification is made in groups G10D 1/02, G10D 1/04 and G10D 1/14, further classifications should be made in group G10D 1/12, whenever considered useful.

Glossary of terms

In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:

Air-reed wind instrument

In this subclass, the term "air-reed wind instrument" refers to a wind musical instrument which is of the type wherein an air current is directed against a ramp edge.

Wind (musical) instrument

A musical instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of air, typically by the player blowing into the instrument.

Zither

In this subclass, the term "zither" refers to a stringed musical instrument with a resonator and without a neck, whose strings are stretched parallel to a surface of the resonator, and played manually.

Guitars
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Cut-away guitars; folding instruments.

Zithers, e.g. autoharps
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Dulcimers.

Details of, or accessories for, stringed musical instruments, e.g. slide-bars
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String cleaners.

Resonating means, horns or diaphragms
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Sound Posts.

Necks; Fingerboards, e.g. fret boards
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Fretboards; Frets.

Fingerboards in the form of keyboards
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Chord Selectors.

Anchoring devices for strings, e.g. tail pieces or hitchpins
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Nuts.

Tuning devices, e.g. pegs, pins, friction discs or worm gears
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Heads.

Chin-rests, hand-rests, shoulder rests or guards being removable from, or integral with the instrument
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Thumb-rests.

General design of wind musical instruments (accordions or concertinas G10D 11/00; whistles G10K 5/00)
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Didgeridoos.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Accordions or concertinas

G10D 11/00

Whistles

G10K 5/00

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Organs or harmoniums

G10B

of the type wherein an air current is directed against a ramp edge
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Pan pipes.

Lip-reed wind instruments, i.e. using the vibration of the musician's lips, e.g. cornets, trumpets, trombones or French horns
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Alpine Horns.

Details of, or accessories for, wind musical instruments (accordions or concertinas G10D 11/00)
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Instrument cleaners.

Lip protectors.

Thumb-rests.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Accordions or concertinas

G10D 11/00

Percussion musical instruments; Details or accessories therefor (struck string instruments G10D 1/14)
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Drumkits.

Drums anchors.

Drun-risers.

Drum-keys.

References
Limiting references

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Struck string instruments

G10D 1/14

Multi-toned musical instruments with sonorous bars, blocks, forks, gongs, plates, rods or teeth
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Arrangements of musical Bells; Steel Drums.

Drumsticks; Mallets (pedals for beaters G10D 13/11)
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Bass-Drum Beaters; Gloves with hardened Tips.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Pedals for beaters

G10D 13/11

Aeolian harps; Singing-flame musical instruments
Definition statement

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Kazoos.