CPC Definition - Subclass G10D
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.
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.
This place does not cover:
Organs, harmoniums or like musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus | |
Pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards | |
Automatic musical instruments | |
Automatic percussion musical instruments | |
Automatic wind musical instruments | |
Automatic stringed musical instruments other than pianofortes | |
Electrophonic musical instruments in which tones are generated by electromechanical means | |
Whistles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
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.
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. |
This place covers:
String cleaners.
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Fretboards; Frets.
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Chord Selectors.
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Nuts.
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Heads.
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Thumb-rests.
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Didgeridoos.
This place does not cover:
Accordions or concertinas | |
Whistles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Organs or harmoniums |
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Pan pipes.
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Alpine Horns.
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Instrument cleaners.
Lip protectors.
Thumb-rests.
This place does not cover:
Accordions or concertinas |
This place covers:
Drumkits.
Drums anchors.
Drun-risers.
Drum-keys.
This place does not cover:
Struck string instruments |
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Arrangements of musical Bells; Steel Drums.
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Bass-Drum Beaters; Gloves with hardened Tips.
This place does not cover:
Pedals for beaters |
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Kazoos.