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. idiophones
8. struck idiophones
9. directly struck idiophones
10. percussion idiophones
11. percussion idiophones: solid-bodied

Narrower term/s

• log xylophones[+]
  • akadindas
  • amadindas
  • entaalas
  • kponimbos
• straw fiddles
• ranat ek
• [xylophones: gourd-resonated][+]
  • marimbas
  • balos
  • mbilas
• gambang kayu
• ranat thum
• pat-talàs

Anotations

Scope note:

Percussion instruments found worldwide in a variety of forms, consisting basically of a set of two or more tuned bars of wood, bamboo, or synthetic material, supported at two nodes of vibration and struck with sticks or hammers; resonators are often included, either for each individual key or for all keys as a set.