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]
11. banjos

Anotations

Scope note:

Finger-plucked banjos fitted with five strings, four of regular length plus a fifth one positioned below the lowest string, secured by a peg halfway up the neck, on which the melody is played with the thumb while the fingers play accompaniment on the others.