NICE CLASSIFICATION - 12 Edition, Version 2025

Class 15 includes mainly musical instruments, their parts and their accessories.

This Class includes, in particular:

- mechanical musical instruments and their accessories, for example, barrel organs, mechanical pianos, intensity regulators for mechanical pianos, robotic drums;

- musical boxes;

- electrical and electronic musical instruments;

- strings, reeds, pegs and pedals for musical instruments;

- tuning forks, tuning hammers;

- colophony (rosin) for stringed musical instruments.

This Class does not include, in particular:

- apparatus for the recording, transmission, amplification and reproduction of sound, for example, electric and electronic effects units for musical instruments, wah-wah pedals, audio interfaces, audio mixers, equalisers being audio apparatus, subwoofers (Cl. 9);

- downloadable music files (Cl. 9);

- downloadable electronic sheet music (Cl. 9), printed sheet music (Cl. 16);

- juke boxes, musical (Cl. 9);

- metronomes (Cl. 9);

- musical greeting cards (Cl. 16).