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
11. violin family instruments

Anotations

Scope note:

Large four-stringed instruments of the violin class; a bass violin tuned an octave below violas. They are structurally similar to violins but differ in having relatively deeper ribs and a shorter neck. They are often referred to simply as 'cellos'.