{
  "id": "akonting",
  "name": "Akonting (Senegambian banjo ancestor)",
  "family": "plucked_traditional",
  "class": "plucked_string_lead",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": 1,
    "sustain": -2,
    "polyphony": 0,
    "harmonicity": 0,
    "register": 0,
    "range": 0,
    "articulation": 1,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": -1
  },
  "short": "akonting",
  "exclude_family_parts": [
    "plucked_traditional_technique"
  ],
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "akonting_construction",
      "name": "Construction",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "gourd_neck_akonting",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Gourd body, long stick neck",
          "descriptors": [
            "archaic",
            "folk",
            "gourd"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "akonting_play",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Playing technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "akonting_clawhammer",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Down-stroke / clawhammer (Senegambian ancestor of banjo clawhammer)",
          "descriptors": [
            "archaic",
            "percussive",
            "pre-banjo-clawhammer"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "akonting_top_skin",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Top skin",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "akonting_goat_skin",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Goat-skin (canonical Jola)",
          "descriptors": [
            "goat-skin",
            "canonical-jola"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "akonting_cowhide",
          "name": "Cowhide (regional alternative)",
          "descriptors": [
            "cowhide-alternative"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "akonting_strings",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "akonting_nylon_fishing_line",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Nylon fishing line (modern Jola canonical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "nylon-fishing-line",
            "modern-jola"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "akonting_gut_historical",
          "name": "Gut (pre-1950s historical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "gut-pre-1950s"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical-gut"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "akonting_construction",
      "name": "Construction",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "gourd_neck_akonting",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Gourd body, long stick neck",
          "descriptors": [
            "archaic",
            "folk",
            "gourd"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "akonting_play",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Playing technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "akonting_clawhammer",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Down-stroke / clawhammer (Senegambian ancestor of banjo clawhammer)",
          "descriptors": [
            "archaic",
            "percussive",
            "pre-banjo-clawhammer"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "akonting_top_skin",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Top skin",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "akonting_goat_skin",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Goat-skin (canonical Jola)",
          "descriptors": [
            "goat-skin",
            "canonical-jola"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "akonting_cowhide",
          "name": "Cowhide (regional alternative)",
          "descriptors": [
            "cowhide-alternative"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "akonting_strings",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "akonting_nylon_fishing_line",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Nylon fishing line (modern Jola canonical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "nylon-fishing-line",
            "modern-jola"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "akonting_gut_historical",
          "name": "Gut (pre-1950s historical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "gut-pre-1950s"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical-gut"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}