{
  "id": "jing_erhu",
  "name": "Jing erhu (Beijing-opera companion fiddle)",
  "family": "bowed",
  "class": "bowed_spike_fiddle",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": -2,
    "sustain": 2,
    "polyphony": -2,
    "harmonicity": 1,
    "register": 0,
    "range": 1,
    "articulation": 2,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": -1
  },
  "short": "jing erhu",
  "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": "jing_erhu_skin",
      "name": "Head skin",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_skin_thin_snake",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Thin black oily snakeskin (correct spec, blends under the jinghu)",
          "descriptors": [
            "snake-skin",
            "focused",
            "warm"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "resonant-membrane",
            "mellow-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "snakeskin"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_skin_thick_snake",
          "name": "Thicker snakeskin (darker, slower speaking)",
          "descriptors": [
            "dark",
            "thick-tone",
            "supporting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "resonant-membrane",
            "warm-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "beijing-opera",
            "natural-skin"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_skin_python",
          "name": "Python skin (erhu-like fullness, wrong for the idiom)",
          "descriptors": [
            "python-skin",
            "resonant",
            "projecting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "resonant-membrane",
            "expressive"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "snakeskin",
            "modern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "jing_erhu_role_type",
      "name": "Role-type accompaniment",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_role_qingyi",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Qingyi (the original 1923-24 Beijing-opera troupe use)",
          "descriptors": [
            "vocal-supportive",
            "lyrical",
            "refined"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "vocal-accompaniment",
            "sustained-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "beijing-opera"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_role_xiaosheng",
          "name": "Xiaosheng (young-male role)",
          "descriptors": [
            "brighter",
            "crisp",
            "supporting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "vocal-accompaniment",
            "accompaniment"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "accompaniment"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_role_laosheng",
          "name": "Laosheng (older-male role)",
          "descriptors": [
            "stately",
            "measured",
            "dark"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "vocal-accompaniment",
            "warm-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "beijing-opera"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "jing_erhu_texture",
      "name": "Line against the jinghu",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_texture_shadow",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Close shadowing, filling and warming the jinghu an octave below",
          "descriptors": [
            "heterophonic",
            "blended",
            "supporting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ensemble",
            "mellow-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "accompaniment"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_texture_divergent",
          "name": "Wider heterophonic divergence with independent passing figures",
          "descriptors": [
            "ornamented",
            "interlocking",
            "expressive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ornamented",
            "melodic"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "beijing-opera",
            "china"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_texture_pad",
          "name": "Sustained warming pad under the jinghu line",
          "descriptors": [
            "sustained",
            "drone-like",
            "supportive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "accompaniment"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "accompaniment"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "jing_erhu_skin",
      "name": "Head skin",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_skin_thin_snake",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Thin black oily snakeskin (correct spec, blends under the jinghu)",
          "descriptors": [
            "snake-skin",
            "focused",
            "warm"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "resonant-membrane",
            "mellow-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "snakeskin"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_skin_thick_snake",
          "name": "Thicker snakeskin (darker, slower speaking)",
          "descriptors": [
            "dark",
            "thick-tone",
            "supporting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "resonant-membrane",
            "warm-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "beijing-opera",
            "natural-skin"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_skin_python",
          "name": "Python skin (erhu-like fullness, wrong for the idiom)",
          "descriptors": [
            "python-skin",
            "resonant",
            "projecting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "resonant-membrane",
            "expressive"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "snakeskin",
            "modern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "jing_erhu_role_type",
      "name": "Role-type accompaniment",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_role_qingyi",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Qingyi (the original 1923-24 Beijing-opera troupe use)",
          "descriptors": [
            "vocal-supportive",
            "lyrical",
            "refined"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "vocal-accompaniment",
            "sustained-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "beijing-opera"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_role_xiaosheng",
          "name": "Xiaosheng (young-male role)",
          "descriptors": [
            "brighter",
            "crisp",
            "supporting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "vocal-accompaniment",
            "accompaniment"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "accompaniment"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_role_laosheng",
          "name": "Laosheng (older-male role)",
          "descriptors": [
            "stately",
            "measured",
            "dark"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "vocal-accompaniment",
            "warm-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "beijing-opera"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "jing_erhu_texture",
      "name": "Line against the jinghu",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_texture_shadow",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Close shadowing, filling and warming the jinghu an octave below",
          "descriptors": [
            "heterophonic",
            "blended",
            "supporting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ensemble",
            "mellow-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "accompaniment"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_texture_divergent",
          "name": "Wider heterophonic divergence with independent passing figures",
          "descriptors": [
            "ornamented",
            "interlocking",
            "expressive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ornamented",
            "melodic"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "beijing-opera",
            "china"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "jing_erhu_texture_pad",
          "name": "Sustained warming pad under the jinghu line",
          "descriptors": [
            "sustained",
            "drone-like",
            "supportive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "accompaniment"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "jingju",
            "accompaniment"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}