{
  "id": "dan_gao",
  "name": "Đàn gáo (southern Vietnamese coconut-body fiddle)",
  "family": "bowed",
  "class": "bowed_string",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": -2,
    "sustain": 2,
    "polyphony": -2,
    "harmonicity": 0,
    "register": -1,
    "range": 1,
    "articulation": 2,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 0
  },
  "short": "đàn gáo",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "bowed_technique",
      "name": "Bow technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bowed_legato_classical",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Classical legato",
          "descriptors": [
            "legato",
            "sustained"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "classical",
            "classical-trained"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "classical"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "_fromFamily": true
    },
    {
      "id": "dan_gao_face",
      "name": "Resonator face",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_skin",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Thin leather membrane over the coconut half (canonical southern build, bow fixed between the strings)",
          "descriptors": [
            "coconut-shell",
            "leather",
            "nasal-toned",
            "threaded-between-strings-canonical"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "nasal-tone",
            "resonator"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "natural-skin"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_wood",
          "name": "Thin wooden soundboard (drier, more lute-like)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wood-faced",
            "dry",
            "round"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "wood-toned",
            "resonator"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "wood"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dan_gao_size",
      "name": "Coconut size / register",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_alto",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Standard coconut, alto — a fourth to a fifth below the đàn nhị",
          "descriptors": [
            "alto",
            "round",
            "warm"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "mid-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "southern"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_tenor",
          "name": "Large thick-walled coconut, tenor",
          "descriptors": [
            "tenor-register",
            "deep-toned",
            "spacious"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "southern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dan_gao_role",
      "name": "Ensemble role",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_paired_nhi",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Paired with a đàn nhị in the cải lương pit (low half of one heterophonic line)",
          "descriptors": [
            "heterophonic",
            "supportive",
            "round"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ensemble",
            "accompaniment"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "southern"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_tai_tu",
          "name": "Đờn ca tài tử chamber lead",
          "descriptors": [
            "intimate-chamber",
            "improvisatory",
            "lyrical"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "soloistic",
            "ornamented"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "tai_tu"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_vong_co",
          "name": "Vọng cổ / oán-mode song accompaniment",
          "descriptors": [
            "melancholic",
            "languid",
            "vocal-supportive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "melancholic",
            "song-accompaniment"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "southern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dan_gao_strings",
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_steel",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Steel (modern cải lương norm)",
          "descriptors": [
            "steel-modern-canonical",
            "projecting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "metal-string"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "steel",
            "modern"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_silk",
          "name": "Silk (pre-modern)",
          "descriptors": [
            "silk-pre-modern-historical",
            "mellow",
            "warm"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "silk-strung",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "dan_gao_face",
      "name": "Resonator face",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_skin",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Thin leather membrane over the coconut half (canonical southern build, bow fixed between the strings)",
          "descriptors": [
            "coconut-shell",
            "leather",
            "nasal-toned",
            "threaded-between-strings-canonical"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "nasal-tone",
            "resonator"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "natural-skin"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_wood",
          "name": "Thin wooden soundboard (drier, more lute-like)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wood-faced",
            "dry",
            "round"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "wood-toned",
            "resonator"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "wood"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dan_gao_size",
      "name": "Coconut size / register",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_alto",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Standard coconut, alto — a fourth to a fifth below the đàn nhị",
          "descriptors": [
            "alto",
            "round",
            "warm"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "mid-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "southern"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_tenor",
          "name": "Large thick-walled coconut, tenor",
          "descriptors": [
            "tenor-register",
            "deep-toned",
            "spacious"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "southern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dan_gao_role",
      "name": "Ensemble role",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_paired_nhi",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Paired with a đàn nhị in the cải lương pit (low half of one heterophonic line)",
          "descriptors": [
            "heterophonic",
            "supportive",
            "round"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ensemble",
            "accompaniment"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "southern"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_tai_tu",
          "name": "Đờn ca tài tử chamber lead",
          "descriptors": [
            "intimate-chamber",
            "improvisatory",
            "lyrical"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "soloistic",
            "ornamented"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "tai_tu"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_vong_co",
          "name": "Vọng cổ / oán-mode song accompaniment",
          "descriptors": [
            "melancholic",
            "languid",
            "vocal-supportive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "melancholic",
            "song-accompaniment"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vietnam",
            "southern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dan_gao_strings",
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_steel",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Steel (modern cải lương norm)",
          "descriptors": [
            "steel-modern-canonical",
            "projecting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "metal-string"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "steel",
            "modern"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dan_gao_silk",
          "name": "Silk (pre-modern)",
          "descriptors": [
            "silk-pre-modern-historical",
            "mellow",
            "warm"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "silk-strung",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}