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. spike fiddles

Anotations

Scope note:

Single-string spike fiddles of the Savanna area of West Africa, consisting of a half-kalabash resonator covered with monitor lizard skin with a hole on one side, a straight or curved wooden neck running through the resonator, a V- or Y-shaped wooden bridge, and a horsehair string.