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. citterns

Narrower term/s

• keyed guitars

Anotations

Scope note:

Type of late cittern very popular in England from about 1750 to 1810, having a flat or slightly convex back and six courses of metal strings, the bottom two being single-strung and the upper four double.