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. lutelike chordophones
9. lutelike chordophones: bowed
10. fiddles

Narrower term/s

• liras da gamba

Anotations

Scope note:

Italian Renaissance fiddles, having a body shaped like a violin, a wide fingerboard, relatively flat bridge, a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal pegs, five melody strings on the fingerboard, and two off-board drone strings.