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
12. percussion plaques
13. metallophones

Anotations

Scope note:

High-pitched metallophones of Thailand and Cambodia with a range of three octaves, consisting of a rectangular box-shaped trough resonator mounted on four short legs, with 21 iron or steel bars supported on narrow wood tracks along the tops of the sides of the resonator and tuned by filing away some of the metal on the underside. They are struck with two beaters, either hard or soft. For the Thai and Cambodian xylophones of the same range and tuning, use "ranat ek."