{
  "id": "khamak",
  "name": "Khamak (Bengali plucked-drone tension lute)",
  "family": "plucked_traditional",
  "class": "plucked_string_lead",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": 0,
    "sustain": -1,
    "polyphony": -2,
    "harmonicity": 0,
    "register": -1,
    "range": 0,
    "articulation": 2,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 0
  },
  "short": "khamak",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "plucked_traditional_technique",
      "name": "Playing technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "plucked_fingerpicked",
          "name": "Fingerpicked",
          "applies_to": [
            "kora",
            "ngoni",
            "kamele_ngoni",
            "donso_ngoni",
            "xalam",
            "akonting",
            "kantele",
            "gusli",
            "dotara",
            "ektara",
            "khamak",
            "tumbi",
            "sintir",
            "banjo_5_string",
            "cavaquinho"
          ],
          "descriptors": [
            "fingerpicked",
            "lyrical"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "string-attack",
            "traditional"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "folk"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "plucked_ornamented_melodic",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Ornamented melodic",
          "applies_to": [
            "sitar",
            "sarod",
            "tanpura",
            "tar_persian",
            "tanbur_persian",
            "setar_persian",
            "saz_baglama",
            "cumbus",
            "baglamas",
            "bouzouki",
            "oud",
            "qanun",
            "kanun",
            "santur",
            "santoor",
            "rudra_veena",
            "veena",
            "dotara",
            "tumbi",
            "ektara",
            "khamak",
            "tambura_balkan"
          ],
          "descriptors": [
            "ornamented",
            "microtonal"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "string-attack",
            "ornament-heavy",
            "melodic"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "middle-eastern",
            "south-asian",
            "central-asian"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "_fromFamily": true
    },
    {
      "id": "khamak_use",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Stylistic use",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "khamak_baul",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Baul accompaniment with pitch-bend pulse",
          "descriptors": [
            "baul",
            "pitch-bending",
            "rhythmic-drone"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "bengali"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "khamak_body",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Body construction",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "khamak_wood_skin",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Wooden shell + goat-skin head (canonical Bengali)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wood-goat-skin-canonical-bengali"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "khamak_string",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "khamak_gut_canonical",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Gut (canonical Bengali baul)",
          "descriptors": [
            "gut-canonical-bengali-baul"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical-gut"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "khamak_steel_modern",
          "name": "Steel (modern alternative)",
          "descriptors": [
            "steel-modern-alternative"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "khamak_use",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Stylistic use",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "khamak_baul",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Baul accompaniment with pitch-bend pulse",
          "descriptors": [
            "baul",
            "pitch-bending",
            "rhythmic-drone"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "bengali"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "khamak_body",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Body construction",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "khamak_wood_skin",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Wooden shell + goat-skin head (canonical Bengali)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wood-goat-skin-canonical-bengali"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "khamak_string",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "khamak_gut_canonical",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Gut (canonical Bengali baul)",
          "descriptors": [
            "gut-canonical-bengali-baul"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical-gut"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "khamak_steel_modern",
          "name": "Steel (modern alternative)",
          "descriptors": [
            "steel-modern-alternative"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "fingerpicked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}