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. fiddles
11. violin family instruments

Narrower term/s

• sultanas

Anotations

Scope note:

Chordophones with a viol-like body but unfretted, held and bowed like the viola; it has seven playing strings which pass over the top of the bridge and seven sympathetic strings which run through the bridge and under the fingerboard into separate pegs in the pegbox.