{
  "id": "ghaychak",
  "name": "Ghaychak (Baloch double-chambered bowed lute)",
  "family": "bowed",
  "class": "bowed_lute",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": -2,
    "sustain": 2,
    "polyphony": 0,
    "harmonicity": 0,
    "register": 0,
    "range": 0,
    "articulation": 2,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 0
  },
  "short": "ghaychak",
  "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": "ghaychak_form",
      "name": "Form and size",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_form_baloch_folk",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Baloch folk ghaychak (one carved block, flaring cutaway wings, skinned lower chamber)",
          "descriptors": [
            "carved",
            "hide-faced",
            "rustic",
            "nasal"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "fretless",
            "rough-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "folk",
            "persian",
            "afghan"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_form_sympathetic_modern",
          "name": "Modern ghaychak with a full bank of sympathetics",
          "descriptors": [
            "sympathetic-halo",
            "resonance-saturated",
            "shimmering"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sympathetic-resonant",
            "ornamented"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern",
            "persian"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_form_orchestral_family",
          "name": "Tehran orchestral ghaychak family (soprano to bass, wood-faced)",
          "descriptors": [
            "standardized",
            "conservatory",
            "blended",
            "deep-toned"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ensemble",
            "classical-trained"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "persian",
            "orchestral",
            "art-music"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ghaychak_context",
      "name": "Repertoire and playing context",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_context_zahirig",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Zahirig modal repertoire (Baloch lament-mode exposition)",
          "descriptors": [
            "modal",
            "plaintive",
            "improvisatory",
            "expressive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "microtonal-bend",
            "ornamented"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "folk",
            "persian"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_context_guati_trance",
          "name": "Guati / damali healing-trance ceremony",
          "descriptors": [
            "ostinato",
            "hypnotic",
            "trance-building",
            "ritual"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "trance-inducing",
            "ritual-context",
            "ostinato"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "ritual",
            "trance"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_context_ensemble",
          "name": "Baloch ensemble line (with donali, suroz and benju)",
          "descriptors": [
            "ensemble-blend",
            "heterophonic",
            "responsive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ensemble",
            "folk-tradition"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "folk",
            "ensemble"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_context_radif",
          "name": "Iranian art-music radif line (national-orchestra adoption)",
          "descriptors": [
            "refined",
            "measured",
            "concert-tuned"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "classical-trained",
            "ornamented"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "persian",
            "art-music"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ghaychak_build",
      "name": "Face and strings",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_build_skin_gut",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Goat-skin lower chamber, gut or silk melody strings",
          "descriptors": [
            "goatskin",
            "hide",
            "gut",
            "warm"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "gut-string",
            "rough-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "traditional"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_build_steel_sympathetic",
          "name": "Steel melody strings over a sympathetic bank",
          "descriptors": [
            "steel",
            "bright",
            "sympathetic-halo"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "steel-string",
            "sympathetic-resonant"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_build_wooden_face",
          "name": "Modern wooden soundboard (orchestral build)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wood",
            "projecting",
            "refined"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "resonant",
            "modern"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern",
            "orchestral"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "ghaychak_form",
      "name": "Form and size",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_form_baloch_folk",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Baloch folk ghaychak (one carved block, flaring cutaway wings, skinned lower chamber)",
          "descriptors": [
            "carved",
            "hide-faced",
            "rustic",
            "nasal"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "fretless",
            "rough-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "folk",
            "persian",
            "afghan"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_form_sympathetic_modern",
          "name": "Modern ghaychak with a full bank of sympathetics",
          "descriptors": [
            "sympathetic-halo",
            "resonance-saturated",
            "shimmering"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sympathetic-resonant",
            "ornamented"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern",
            "persian"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_form_orchestral_family",
          "name": "Tehran orchestral ghaychak family (soprano to bass, wood-faced)",
          "descriptors": [
            "standardized",
            "conservatory",
            "blended",
            "deep-toned"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ensemble",
            "classical-trained"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "persian",
            "orchestral",
            "art-music"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ghaychak_context",
      "name": "Repertoire and playing context",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_context_zahirig",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Zahirig modal repertoire (Baloch lament-mode exposition)",
          "descriptors": [
            "modal",
            "plaintive",
            "improvisatory",
            "expressive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "microtonal-bend",
            "ornamented"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "folk",
            "persian"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_context_guati_trance",
          "name": "Guati / damali healing-trance ceremony",
          "descriptors": [
            "ostinato",
            "hypnotic",
            "trance-building",
            "ritual"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "trance-inducing",
            "ritual-context",
            "ostinato"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "ritual",
            "trance"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_context_ensemble",
          "name": "Baloch ensemble line (with donali, suroz and benju)",
          "descriptors": [
            "ensemble-blend",
            "heterophonic",
            "responsive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ensemble",
            "folk-tradition"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "folk",
            "ensemble"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_context_radif",
          "name": "Iranian art-music radif line (national-orchestra adoption)",
          "descriptors": [
            "refined",
            "measured",
            "concert-tuned"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "classical-trained",
            "ornamented"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "persian",
            "art-music"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ghaychak_build",
      "name": "Face and strings",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_build_skin_gut",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Goat-skin lower chamber, gut or silk melody strings",
          "descriptors": [
            "goatskin",
            "hide",
            "gut",
            "warm"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "gut-string",
            "rough-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "traditional"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_build_steel_sympathetic",
          "name": "Steel melody strings over a sympathetic bank",
          "descriptors": [
            "steel",
            "bright",
            "sympathetic-halo"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "steel-string",
            "sympathetic-resonant"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "ghaychak_build_wooden_face",
          "name": "Modern wooden soundboard (orchestral build)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wood",
            "projecting",
            "refined"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "resonant",
            "modern"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern",
            "orchestral"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}