Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
5. sound devices (equipment)
6. [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]

Narrower term/s

• plucked idiophones[+]
  • music boxes [NP] [+]
    • orchestral organettes
  • lamellaphones [+]
    • thumb pianos
    • Jew's harps
    • clack idiophones
• struck idiophones[+]
  • directly struck idiophones [+]
    • concussion sticks [+]
      • claves (concussion sticks)
    • clappers (idiophones) [+]
      • slapsticks
      • bones (idiophones)
      • pu-ilus
      • kemanaks
      • spaganes
      • p'ai pan
      • triccaballacca
      • clapper sticks
    • concussion vessels [+]
      • cymbals [+]
      • castanets
    • percussion idiophones [+]
      • percussion idiophones: solid-bodied [+]
      • percussion idiophones: hollow-bodied [+]
  • indirectly struck idiophones [+]
    • scrapers (idiophones) [+]
      • scraped sticks
      • scraped tubes [+]
      • scraped vessels [+]
      • cog rattles
    • rattles (indirectly struck idiophones) [+]
      • vessel rattles [+]
      • suspension rattles [+]
      • frame rattles [+]
      • pu-ilus [NP]
      • ceremonial rattles [+]
      • shell shakers [NP]
    • split idiophones
• friction idiophones[+]
  • musical glasses [+]
    • armonicas
  • nail violins
  • musical saws
  • livikas
  • friction harps

Anotations

Scope note:

Any instruments that yield sound by their own substance, being stiff and elastic enough to vibrate without requiring a stretched membrane or strings.