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. zitherlike chordophones
9. [zitherlike chordophones: plucked]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Sound Devices
5. sound devices
6. sound devices by function
7. musical instruments
8. keyboard instruments

Narrower term/s

• spinets
• virginals[+]
  • muselars
• clavicytheria[+]
  • chekkers [NP]

Anotations

Scope note:

Zitherlike chordophones having a keyboard which operates a plucking mechanism to sound the strings; typically of an an elongated wing shape like a grand piano with strings that run parallel to the keys.