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. Visual and Verbal Communication
4. Visual Works
5. visual works
6. visual works by function
7. religious visual works

Anotations

Scope note:

Large bells, often in a set of bells, hung in the tower of a church and rung for various purposes, including the following: to call people to worship services; to mark an event such as a wedding, funeral, festival, etc.; or to mark the hours of the day, in order to keep time for the community. For handbells used at an altar in a church, use "altar bells."