This class covers all sound-emitting devices, in general, whether or not they may be considered as being musical.
In this class, the following expression is used with the meaning indicated:
"musical instrument" does not exclude devices emitting a single sound signal.
The following Class Index is given in place of subclass indexes, to show the grouping of the elaborations belonging to different subclasses, under the following three fundamental types:
wind instruments;
string instruments;
percussion instruments,
which relate clearly to the majority of instruments.
Details of, or accessories for, automatic musical instruments
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Actions
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Tune barrels, sheets, rollers, spools, or the like
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Driving or setting of tune barrels, discs, or the like; Winding, rewinding, or guiding of tune sheets or the like (handling webs or sheets in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H)