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:

Japanese spike fiddles having a long neck, square body, parchment belly and back, and from two to four strings. They are held vertically by the kneeling players and rotated to select the appropriate string to be sounded by the bow, which always follows the same path.