HEADING 92.05 - OTHER WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (FOR EXAMPLE CLARINETS TRUMPETS BAGPIPES).

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9205.10 - Brass-wind instruments

9205.90 - Other

This heading covers wind musical instruments not falling in heading 92.03 or 92.04 and not specified in heading 92.08 (fairground organs mechanical street organs sound signalling instrumentsetc.) though these could in certain respects also be considered wind instruments. The heading includes :

(A) Brass-wind instruments.

The term " brass-wind " refers to the tone quality of instruments used in a particular section of an orchestra rather than to the constituent material of the instruments. This group includes instruments generally of metal (brass nickel- silver silver etc.) in the form of a tapered tube terminating in a bell; they may be coiled to various degrees. They are fitted with a hollowed-out mouthpiece sounded with the lips and u ually valve operated. They include cornets trumpets (simple trumpets orchestral trumpets etc.) bugles saxhorns baritone and bass bugles bombardons (bass-tuba) bass sousaphones trombones (valve or sliding type) orchestral horns (e.g. French horns) and non-valved horns used in orchestras (e.g. hunting horns).

(B) Other wind musical instruments.

This group covers :

(1) So-called " wood-wind " instruments. These instruments consist essentially of a tube (of wood or reed metal plastics ebonite glass) with holes generally fitted with keys and rings. They are usually sounded with reeds. This group includes flutes recorders fifes flageolets oboes clarinets cors anglais bassoons saxophones and sarrusophones. The group also covers ocarinas (small egg-shaped instruments made of metal or clay giving a flute-like sound) and sliding whistles (of metal or ebonite). (2) Other wind instruments (e.g. bagpipes Breton pipes or the musette consisting of a wind-chest or bag made of skin or from a bladder and three to five pipes - one pipe being the chanter and the others the drones).

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