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. spike fiddles

Anotations

Scope note:

Chinese spike fiddles having two strings, a long neck of hardwood with two tuning pegs at the upper end, and a tubular, hexagonal, or octagonal resonator covered at one end with snakeskin. They are played with a horsehair bow which passes between the two strings.