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. idiophones
8. struck idiophones
9. directly struck idiophones
10. percussion idiophones
11. percussion idiophones: solid-bodied
12. xylophones

Narrower term/s

• akadindas
• amadindas
• entaalas
• kponimbos

Anotations

Scope note:

Xylophones consisting of large wood keys or slabs resting across banana tree trunks, or a combination of straw bundles and banana tree trunks, found in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Commonly from two to six players interlock different melodic patterns on a single instrument.