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. percussion tubes
13. slit drums (percussion tubes)

Narrower term/s

• temple blocks
• merewas

Anotations

Scope note:

Small wood slit drums, generally in the form of a rectangular block of hardwood with one or two long, hollowed-out slots, played by being struck on the surface or the edge above the slots with drumsticks or hammers.