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322000 Manufacture of musical instruments


This type includes:

  • manufacture of stringed instruments
  • manufacture of keyboard stringed instruments, including automatic pianos
  • manufacture of keyboard pipe organs, including harmoniums and similar keyboard instruments with free metal reeds
  • manufacture of accordions and similar instruments, including mouth organs
  • manufacture of wind instruments
  • manufacture of percussion musical instruments
  • manufacture of musical instruments, the sound of which is produced electronically
  • manufacture of musical boxes, fairground organs, calliopes, etc.
  • manufacture of instrument parts and accessories:
  • metronomes, tuning forks, pitch pipes, cards, discs and rolls for automatic mechanical instruments, etc.

This type also includes:

  • manufacture of whistles, call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instruments

This type excludes:

  • reproduction of pre-recorded sound and video tapes and discs (see 182000)
  • manufacture of microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, headphones and similar components (see 264000)
  • manufacture of record players, tape recorders and the like (see 264000)
  • manufacture of toy musical instruments (see 324000)
  • restoring of organs and other historic musical instruments (see 331900)
  • publishing of pre-recorded sound and video tapes and discs (see 592000)
  • piano tuning (see 952900)