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. chordophones
8. zitherlike chordophones
9. [zitherlike chordophones: bowed]

Anotations

Scope note:

Single-string zitherlike chordophones with a slender, three-sided body made of thin boards tapering to the top, and a unique bridge, one of the feet of which does not rest on the belly of the instrument but is suspended a hairsbreadth above it, so that it drums rapidly against it when played. Common from the 15th to the mid-18th century.