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92.01 Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments (+). - Upright pianos 920 1.20 - Grand pianos 9201.90 - Other 9201.10 This heading covers : (1) Pianos, with a keyboard and strings struck by hammers, whether or not fitted with an electrical sound pick-up and amplifying device, i.e. : (a) Upright pianos, which have a sound-board on which the strings are mounted vertically, and when overstrung, with the bass strings crossing the remainder; (b) Grand pianos (concert and baby grands), which have strings mounted horizontally in an elongated casing. This group includes automatic pianos, whether or not incorporating a keyboard, which are played, e. by means of perforated rolls of paper or paperboard; they may be mechanicat;, pneumatically or electrically operated. However, " electronic pianos " and electronic musical instruments which may be .fitted to pianos in order to produce the sound effects of other instruments while the piano is be~ngplayed fall in heading 92.07 (see the General Explanatory Note to this Chapter). (2) Harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments such as spinets and clavichords.
Subheading Explanatory Note. Subheadings 9201.10 and 9201.20 These subheadings also include automatic pianos.
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (b) Microphones, amplifiers, loud-speakers, head-phones, switches, stroboscopes or other accessory instruments, apparatus or equipment of Chapter 85 or 90, for use with but not incorporated in or housed in the same cabinet as instruments of this Chapter; (c) Toy instruments or apparatus (heading 95.03); (d) Brushes for cleaning musical instruments (heading 96.03), or monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles (heading 96.20); or (e) Collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 97.05 or 97.06). 2.- Bows and sticks and similar devices used in playing the musical instruments of heading 92.02 or 92.06 presented with such instruments in numbers normal thereto and clearly intended for use therewith, are to be classified in the same heading as the relative instruments. Cards, discs and rolls of heading 92.09 presented with an instrument are to be treated as separate articles and not as forming a part of such instrument.