G10D 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)
Introduced: September 1968
Description
G10D covers mechanical and structural designs for acoustic and traditional musical instruments, including stringed instruments (guitars, violins, pianos), wind instruments (flutes, saxophones, trumpets), reed instruments (accordions, concertinas), and percussion instruments (drums, bells, xylophones). This classification encompasses construction methods, sound-producing mechanisms, tuning devices, playing mechanisms, and material innovations specific to these instrument types. Inventions addressing acoustic properties, resonance chambers, vibration control, and traditional instrument modifications are included, while electronic sound generation and amplification systems are typically classified elsewhere under G10H.
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
CPC: 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)
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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)
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 9 subcodes exist in both systems.
3 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
Child Classifications
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- G10D 13/00 Percussion musical instruments; Details or accessories therefor (struck string instruments G10D1/14) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G10D 3/00 Details of, or accessories for, stringed musical instruments, e.g. slide-bars IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G10D 7/00 General design of wind musical instruments (accordions or concertinas G10D11/00; whistles G10K5/00) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G10D 9/00 Details of, or accessories for, wind musical instruments (accordions or concertinas G10D11/00) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G10D 99/00 Musical instruments not otherwise provided for since 2020 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC