Brass-wind instruments

92.05 Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs. 9205.10 - Brass-wind instruments 9205.90 - Other This headin covers wind musical instruments not specified in heading 92.08 (fairground organs, mec anical street or ans, sound signalling instruments, etc.) though these could, in certain respects, also be consi ered wind instruments. f The heading includes : (A) Brass-wind instruments. The term "brass-wind" refers to the tone quality of instmnents used in a particular section of an orchestra, rather than to the constituent material of the instruments. This group includes instruments, general1 of metal (brass, nickel-silver, silver, etc.) in the form of a tapered tube terminating in a ell; they may be coiled to various degrees. They are fitted with a hollowed-out mouth iece, sounded with the lips and usually valve operated. They include cornets, trum ets {imple trum ets, orchestral trumpets, etc.), bugles, saxhorns, baritone and bass bug es, bornbardons (pass-tuba , bass sousa hones, trombones (valve or slidin type), orchestral horns (e.g., French horns and non-va ved horns used in orchestras (e.g., Euntinghorns). r, Y P (B) Other wind musical instruments. This group covers : (1) Keyboard pi e organs (church-organ t e). These are wind instruments in which the movement o the keys is transmitted to ';ge pipes electrically, electro-pneumatically or mechanically. ? The heading also covers the console and the organ case (i.e., the woodwork in which the organ is contained and which is usually of decorative design) when presented with the organ. If presented separately, they are excluded (heading 92.09). This heading does not include orchestrions, street organs and similar pipe instruments, not fitted with a keyboard but o erated either automatically or by a handle (heading 92.08). Electronic organs are olassified'in beading 92.07. (2) Harmoniums and similar keyboard instruments with free metal reeds, but without pipes. (3) Accordions and similar instruments, concertinas, bandoneons and foot-blown accordions. The heading excludes electronic accordions (see the Explanatory Note to heading 92.07, and the General Explanatory Note to this Chapter). (4) Mouth organs (harmonicas). (5) So-called "wood-wind" instruments. These instruments consist essential1 of a tube (of wood or reed, metal, lastics, ebonite, glass) with holes generally fitte with keys and rings. They are usua y sounded with reeds. This group includes flutes, recorders, fifes, flageolets, oboes, clarinets, cors anglais, bassoons, saxophones and sarrusophones. B d' The grou also covers ocarinas (small egg-sha ed instruments made of metal or clay, giving a ute-like sound), and sliding whstles &f metal or ebonite). if $e.k (6) Other wind instruments bagpipes, Breton pipes or the musette, consisting of a wind-chest or bag made o s n or from a bladder, and three to five pipes - one pipe being the chanter and the others the drones). 92.06- Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas). Percussion musical instruments are struck with an object of a similar kind, or with a stick or similar device, or with the bare hand. These instruments are also known collectively as " the drums ". The main instruments in this heading are : (A) Those with a stretched skin, e.g. : (1) Tabors and tambourins. (2) Drums (shallow side drums, bass or big drums, etc.). These consist of a wooden or metal cylinder with parchment or vellum stretched over each end (double-headed drums). They are sounded by striking with one or two plain or leather-headed sticks. (3) Timpani and kettle-drums. These consist of parchment stretched over hollow copper hemspheres varying considerably in size and usually resting on the ground). They are tuned to a de inite note and are sounded with sticks. d (4) Tambourines with jingles. These consist of a hoop covered with skin and are fitted with jingles or copper tongues which are sounded by shaking the instrument in different ways, or by striking it with the palm of the hand, the fingertips, etc. (5) Tom-toms. (B) Other percussion instruments such as : (1) Cymbals. These are circular plates generally sounded b striking one a ainst the other or by rubbing them to ether; in some cases, one sing e cymbal may e sounded by striking with a soft-hea ed stick. ? % % (2) Gongs (e ., Chinese gongs), which are metal plates usually struck with a heavy stick tipped wi a skin or felt wad. (3) Triangles, which are steel rods bent into the form of equilateral triangles; they are sounded with an iron rod. (4) Jingles 'ohnnies (Chinese avilions, Turkish crescents), which are fitted with jingles and small bells which soun on shaking the staff on which the instrument in mounted. f (5) Castenets, which are small wooden, bone or ivory concave or shell-shaped instruments; they are either fixed to the fingers or mounted on a handle, and are sounded by strikmg one against the other. (6) Xylophones consistin of a series of small wooden slats of graduated lengths, mounted on two supports and p ayed by striking with sticks. f (7) Metallophones, which are similar to xylophones but have narrow metal plates (steel or duralurmn) instead of wooden slats; (both xylophones and metallophones are often fitted with metal resonance ton es or tubes beneath the table). The heading also includes similar instruments wit glass plates. % (8) Celestas and the like, used in the percussion instruments group as a substitute for conventional chimes. These have the outward appearance of a small piano with pedal and dampers. Sound is by striking special thick steel plates with mechanical hammers operated by a (9) Bells, sets of bells, chimes and tubular bells (a series of tubes suspended in a frame and struck either with a bare hand or with a hammer). (10) Maracas and similar instruments consisting of hollow bells or tubes sounded by shaking. (11) " Claves " consisting of a pair of hard wooden sticks. (12) Flexatones consisting of a metal plate mounted on a handle, and two wooden balls placed on either side of the plate. On shakin the instrument, the balls hit the late causing it to vibrate, while the tone is contmlle by bending the plate with the thurni f Some of the instruments mentioned above are occasionally combined so that a single performer may lay several at the same time. In dance-bands, for instance, the soft-headed stick used to som the big drum is edal-operated and, in addition, the drum is fitted with cymbals, gongs, wood-blocks (types o wooden resonance boxes either equipped with bells or forming a xylophone), etc. ~7 P Carillons for public buildings, suitable for producing music, are also classified here. However, electronic percussion musical instruments are classified in heading 92.07. The heading also excludes : (a) Door or table bells and gongs, door chimes, etc., which are not musical instruments (heading 83.06 or 85.31). (b) Chimes and other striking mechanisms for clocks (heading 91.14).