Class 15: Musical instruments

Class heading

• Musical instruments
• music stands and stands for musical instruments
• conductors' batons

What class 15 covers

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 (Class 9)
• downloadable electronic sheet music (Class 9), printed sheet music (Class 16)
• downloadable music files (Class 9)
• musical juke boxes (Class 9)
• metronomes (Class 9)
• musical greeting cards (Class 16)

Class heading and explanatory note adapted from WIPO’s Nice Classification explanatory notes (NCL 13-2026), © WIPO, CC BY. Changes: shortened layout; references to other classes turned into links. CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · WIPO terms of use (opens in a new tab)

Turkish list (Tebliğ 2026/2) for class 15

Unofficial English translation. Filings in Türkiye use the official Turkish text of TÜRKPATENT Communiqué 2026/2.

• Musical instruments and cases for them
  Show official Turkish text

  Müzik aletleri ve muhafazaları.

Example terms in class 15

A selection of 100 terms from the 369 USPTO ID Manual terms in this class.

• Accordions
• Acoustic guitars
• Alpine horns
• Bagpipe reeds
• Bamboo flutes
• Barrel organs
• Bass drums
• Basses being musical instruments
• Bongo drums
• Bows for musical instruments
• Bridges for musical instruments
• Capos
• Carrying cases for musical instruments
• Castanets
• Celestas
• Cello endpin stoppers
• Chin rests for violins and violas
• Chinese zither stands
• Clarinets
• Collapsible guitar stand and seat combination
• Conductor's batons
• Congas
• Cornets
• Cowbells being musical instruments
• Cymbal sticks
• Digital drums being musical instruments
• Djembes
• Double-reed musical instruments
• Drum machines
• Drum pedals
• Drum stick holders
• Drums and percussion instruments
• Drumstick holders
• Electric and electronic musical instruments
• Electric carillons
• Electric musical instruments
• Electronic drum sets
• Electronic musical instruments
• Electronic percussion instruments
• End pins for double basses
• Endpins for cellos and double basses
• English horns
• Euphoniums
• Flutes
• Gongs
• Guimbards
• Guitar bridges
• Guitar saddles
• Guitar strings
• Handbells
• Harmoniums
• Harpsichords
• Horsehair for violin bows
• Japanese traditional musical instruments
• Kettledrum frames
• Keyboards for musical instruments
• Lutes
• Mallets for musical instruments
• Mandolins
• Mechanical musical instruments
• Morin khuur
• Mouthpieces for musical instruments
• Music stands
• Musical chimes being musical instruments
• Musical instrument harnesses
• Musical instrument stands
• Musical instrument straps for guitars
• Musical instruments
• Musical keyboard cases
• Oboes
• Pedal steel guitars
• Percussion instruments
• Piano keyboards
• Pianos
• Picks for musical instruments
• Player pianos
• Plectrums
• Rattles being musical instruments
• Reeds for musical instruments
• Rosin for stringed musical instruments
• Saxophone reeds
• Shehnai reeds
• Shofars
• Shoulder straps for accordions
• Sistra
• Snare drums
• Steel guitars
• Straps for musical instruments
• String winders for stringed musical instruments
• Strings for musical instruments
• Tambourines
• Traditional Japanese musical instruments
• Trumpets
• Tuners for musical instruments
• Tuning hammers
• Ukuleles
• Violin bow-hold teaching devices
• Western style musical instruments
• Wind musical instruments for children
• Woodwind instruments

Example terms: Source: USPTO ID Manual (public domain), retrieved 18 October 2026.

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