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. lutelike chordophones
9. lutelike chordophones: bowed
10. fiddles

Anotations

Scope note:

Three-stringed fiddles of southern Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, having a short unfretted neck surmounted by a pegbox and a deeply waisted body of irregular shape with a skin belly over the lower part, on which rests a wood bridge. They are played held upright, with a heavy, curved bow.