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92.02 - Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps). 9202.10 - Played with a bow 9202.90 - Other This heading covers : (A) Instruments played with a bow The chief examples of such instruments are violins, viols and violas (the latter being slightly larger than orchary violins), violoncellos and bass-viols and double basses. (B) Other string musical instruments This group includes : (1) Plucked string instruments, in which sound vibrations are obtained by momentarily displacing the string out of alignment, either with the fingers or with a small pointed piece (plectrum) of wood, ivory, tortoise-shell, plastics, etc. Examples include : (a) Mandolines (Nea olitan mandolines with a deeply cambered back, flat rnandolines, mando as, etc.). P (b) Guitars. (c) German lutes (a kind of mandoline). (d) Banjos (a long-necked instrument having a circular flat-backed body with a flat belly formed by a drumskin). (e) Ukuleles (small guitars with a thick neck). (f) Zithers (or tithers). These have a flat sound-box of approximately trapezoidal shape, and a large number of strings usually of metal. (g) Balalaikas. (h) Harps. These are stringed instruments plucked with the fingers; they have a triangular kame and strings of graduated lengths. (2) Other instruments, such as : (a) Aeolian harps. These are used in gardens, etc. They consist of a number of strings mounted on a sounding box; when placed in a current of wind they produce natural harmonics. (b) Czimbalos. These have a frame on which steel strings are mounted. They are played by striking with softheaded hammers, and are used in gipsy orchestras. In some instruments, particularly guitars, the sound may be electronically amplified without excluding them from this headmg; however, electronic instruments such as guitars without sound-boxes fall in heading 92.07 (see the General Explanatory Note to this Chapter). -
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.