Manufacture of musical instruments

This group includes: - manufacture of stringed instruments; - manufacture of keyboard stringed instruments, including automatic pianos; - manufacture of keyboard pipe organs, including harmoniums and similar keyboard instruments with free metal reeds; - manufacture of accordions and similar instruments, including mouth organs; - manufacture of wind instruments; - manufacture of percussion musical instruments; - manufacture of musical instruments, the sound of which is produced electronically; - manufacture of musical boxes; - manufacture of instrument parts and accessories: metronomes, tuning forks, pitch pipes, cards, discs and rolls for automatic mechanical instruments etc. This group also includes: manufacture of whistles, call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instruments.

This class excludes: - reproduction of pre-recorded sound and video tapes and discs, see 18200 (Reproduction of recorded media); - manufacture of microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, headphones and similar components, see 26400 (Manufacture of consumer electronics); - manufacture of record players, tape recorders and the like, see 26400 (Manufacture of consumer electronics); - manufacture of toy musical instruments, see 32400 (Manufacture of games and toys); - restoring of organs and other historic musical instruments, see 33190 (Repair of other equipment); - publishing of pre-recorded sound and video tapes and discs, see 59200 (Sound recording and music publishing activities); - piano tuning, see 95290 (Repair of bicycles, watches, clocks and other personal and household goods not elsewhere classified).