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]
10. harpsichords
11. virginals

Anotations

Scope note:

Flemish virginals having their keyboard placed off-center to the right; consequently the strings are centrally plucked for most of the instruments' range, giving them a distinctive flutelike tone unlike that of any other type of virginal.