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: plucked
10. [lutelike chordophones with long neck: plucked]

Anotations

Scope note:

Small, fretted, plucked lutelike instruments of the Andes region of South America, existing in many shapes and with differing numbers of strings; of the two main types, one is of wood and flat-backed, the other has a round back of armadillo shell.