This heading covers :
(1) Pianos, with a keyboard and strings struck by hammers, whether or not fitted with an electrical sound pick-up and amplifying device, i.e. : (a) Upright pianos, which have a sound-board on which the strings are mounted vertically, and when overstrung, with the bass strings crossing the remainder; (b) Grand pianos (concert and baby grands), which have strings mounted horizontally in an elongated casing. This group includes automatic pianos, whether or not incorporating a keyboard, which are played, e.g., by means of perforated rolls of paper or paperboard; they may be mechanically, pneumatically or electrically operated. However, "electronic pianos" and electronic musical instruments which may be fitted to pianos in order to produce the sound effects of other instruments while the piano is being played fall in heading 92.07 (see the General Explanatory Note to this Chapter). (2) Harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments such as spinets and clavichords. Subheading Explanatory Note. Subheadings 9201.10 and 9201.20 These subheadings also include automatic pianos.
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