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: hollow-bodied
12. [bells and sets of bells]
13. bells (idiophones)
14. suspended bells
15. clapper bells

Anotations

Scope note:

Metal percussion instruments, often in bronze or brass, used on ships to give signals for the timing of watches, in case of fog, during anchoring maneuvers, or as a general alarm. Traditionally these have the name of the ship they are used on engraved or cast on their surface.