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]
7. idiophones
8. struck idiophones
9. directly struck idiophones
10. percussion idiophones
11. percussion idiophones: hollow-bodied
12. [bells and sets of bells]
13. bells (idiophones)
14. suspended bells
15. clapper bells

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. sound signaling devices

Anotations

Scope note:

Medium-sized or small bells that were used in a Christian service, hung in a location where the bell might be heard by those outside as well as within the church. Examples of where the sanctus bell is hung include a bellcote, a chancel roof, a belfry, or window. The bell was rung to alert people outside and inside the church that the main portion of the Mass was beginning. At High Masses, the great church bell was rung instead of the sanctus bell. In modern services, the small altar bells are instead typically rung at the Sanctus portion of the Mass.