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:

Upright serpents developed by the Parisian maker Forveille around 1833, made of brass with a wood bell, and having two sharp U-shaped bends, six fingerholes, three or four keys, and a crook to carry the mouthpiece.