{
  "id": "balafon",
  "name": "Balafon (West African pentatonic marimba)",
  "family": "percussion",
  "class": "tuned_percussion",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": 2,
    "sustain": -2,
    "polyphony": 1,
    "harmonicity": -1,
    "register": 0,
    "range": 1,
    "articulation": 0,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 0
  },
  "short": "balafon",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "balafon_tuning",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Tuning system",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "balafon_mandinka",
          "name": "Mandinka equiheptatonic",
          "descriptors": [
            "Senegambian",
            "seven-tone"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "griot"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "balafon_susu",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Susu pentatonic",
          "descriptors": [
            "Guinea-coastal",
            "traditional"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "balafon_sosso_bala",
          "name": "Sosso-bala (sacred archaic)",
          "descriptors": [
            "oldest",
            "ceremonial",
            "Mande-foundational"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "balafon_resonator",
      "name": "Resonator construction",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "balafon_gourd",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Calabash gourds (canonical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "buzzy",
            "natural-material-resonance",
            "traditional",
            "calabash",
            "gourd"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "balafon_box",
          "name": "Wooden box (modern concert)",
          "descriptors": [
            "stable",
            "urban",
            "projecting",
            "wood"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "balafon_synth",
          "name": "Synthetic / hybrid",
          "descriptors": [
            "experimental",
            "durable",
            "contemporary",
            "synthetic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "synthesized",
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "balafon_tuning",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Tuning system",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "balafon_mandinka",
          "name": "Mandinka equiheptatonic",
          "descriptors": [
            "Senegambian",
            "seven-tone"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "griot"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "balafon_susu",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Susu pentatonic",
          "descriptors": [
            "Guinea-coastal",
            "traditional"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "balafon_sosso_bala",
          "name": "Sosso-bala (sacred archaic)",
          "descriptors": [
            "oldest",
            "ceremonial",
            "Mande-foundational"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "balafon_resonator",
      "name": "Resonator construction",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "balafon_gourd",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Calabash gourds (canonical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "buzzy",
            "natural-material-resonance",
            "traditional",
            "calabash",
            "gourd"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "balafon_box",
          "name": "Wooden box (modern concert)",
          "descriptors": [
            "stable",
            "urban",
            "projecting",
            "wood"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "balafon_synth",
          "name": "Synthetic / hybrid",
          "descriptors": [
            "experimental",
            "durable",
            "contemporary",
            "synthetic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "synthesized",
            "mallets",
            "woody"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}