STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

**Definition:** 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.

**Limiting references (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 -> G10F1/08 - Automatic wind musical instruments -> G10F1/12 - Automatic stringed musical instruments other than pianofortes -> G10F1/16 - Electrophonic musical instruments in which tones are generated by electromechanical means -> G10H - Whistles -> G10K5/00

**Glossary:** - 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.