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. Object Genres
4. object genres
5. object genres by function
6. ceremonial objects
7. religious objects
8. liturgical objects

Anotations

Scope note:

Bells having a very particular ceremonial significance in ancient or Roman Catholic ceremonies. It may refer to a bell mounted on a pole and carried in procession or otherwise displayed, signifying a cathedral (seat of a bishop) and its link to the Pope. It derives from a medieval practice where a mounted bell was used in papal processions to alert passersby of the approach of the Pope. The term may also refer to a distinctive Etruscan or Roman carved or decorated ceremonial or funereal bell, or such a bell-shape depicted in two dimensions in a relief sculpture or wall painting.