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]
11. citterns

Anotations

Scope note:

Bass citterns in use chiefly in France and Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries, patterned on the theorbo, with two peg boxes, one for the on-board strings which were stopped by the fingers, and one for the off-board unstopped strings.