Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by profession or discipline]
7. [equipment for science and technology]
8. acoustic equipment

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Sound Devices
5. sound devices
6. sound devices by function
7. ceremonial sound devices

Anotations

Scope note:

Pieces of wood or another material, used to receive the blow of a hammer or other device for the purpose of producing sound. An example is the disk-shaped striking block used with a gavel (ceremonial mallet) in courts, as when a judge bangs a gavel to start a session.