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. plucked idiophones
9. lamellaphones

Anotations

Scope note:

Lamellaphones originating in Africa, consisting of tuned metal or split-cane tongues fitted to a wood board or resonator, so that the tongues can vibrate freely at one end; they are played by depressing and releasing the free ends of the tongues with thumbs and forefingers.