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. lip-vibrated aerophones
9. [lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore]
10. [lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with fingerholes]
11. serpents (aerophones)

Anotations

Scope note:

Late serpents appearing around the early 19th century, consisting of a conical tube about 230 cm long, generally made of copper, with six fingerholes, three or four keys, a swan-neck crook, and terminating in a widely flared bell.