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. aerophones
8. reeds (aerophones)
9. free reeds
10. mouth organs

Anotations

Scope note:

Mouth organs of China having a bowl-shaped windchest of wood or metal with a short blowpipe extending out from the side, and bamboo pipes of varying lengths, usually 17 in number, arranged in an incomplete circle and mounted through holes in the top of the windchest. A free-beating reed of copper or an alloy is attached at the bottom of each pipe within the windchest.