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. membranophones
8. drums (membranophones)
9. struck drums
10. tubular drums
11. [tubular drums with single head]

Anotations

Scope note:

Small single-headed drums, Afro-Cuban in origin, with conical or cylindrical hardwood shells; they generally occur in pairs joined together horizontally, one being larger in diameter than the other. Existing in tunable and nontunable versions, they are played with the bare hands.