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: plucked]

Narrower term/s

• koto
• se (zithers)
• qin (long zithers)
• zheng
• kayagum
• migyaun
• kachapis
• kŏmun'gos
• čhakhēs

Anotations

Scope note:

Zitherlike chordophones having a long rectangular soundboard or tube resonator with a slightly arched surface and usually, though not always, movable bridges, played by plucking with the fingers.