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. lutes (chordophones)

Anotations

Scope note:

Lutes constructed so that the neck penetrates the sound box, having long thin necks and small bodies, usually covered with skin. The strings are normally lifted well above the neck by a high bridge. The form developed into "spike fiddles."