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: solid-bodied
12. percussion plaques
13. metallophones

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People
4. people
5. groups of people
6. groups of people by activity
7. ensembles
8. gamelan

Anotations

Scope note:

Javanese metallophones consisting of thick bronze or iron slabs, usually six or seven but varying regionally, set on top of a wood trough or cradle, often elaborately carved, and struck with hammers of wood or horn. They exist in three sizes, and are important instruments in the Javanese gamelan.