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:

Spike fiddles of the Tuareg of North Africa, consisting of a large gourd body covered with goat skin, a skin handle, and a single horsehair string which passes over a bridge to a notch in the end of the handle; it can be either bowed or plucked.