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: plucked
10. [lutelike chordophones with long neck: plucked]

Narrower term/s

• surbahars

Anotations

Scope note:

Large, fretted lutelike chordophones of India, having a pear-shaped body made of a gourd or of hollowed-out wood, and a long hollow neck. They are important instruments in the Indo-Muslim style of Hindustani music.