{
  "id": "kithara",
  "name": "Kithara (ancient Greek professional concert lyre)",
  "family": "plucked_traditional",
  "class": "plucked_lyre",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": 1,
    "sustain": 1,
    "polyphony": 1,
    "harmonicity": 1,
    "register": 0,
    "range": 0,
    "articulation": 1,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 0
  },
  "short": "kithara",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "kithara_form",
      "name": "Instrument form",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "kithara_concert",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Classical concert kithara (heavy boxwood arms)",
          "descriptors": [
            "resonant",
            "full-bodied",
            "projecting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "lyre",
            "ancient-greek",
            "plucked"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "kithara_thracian",
          "name": "Thracian / cradle kithara (lighter round-based)",
          "descriptors": [
            "airy",
            "sweet",
            "light"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "lyre",
            "ancient-greek"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "kithara_asiatic",
          "name": "Asiatic kithara (broad-bodied, many strings)",
          "descriptors": [
            "deep-toned",
            "rich",
            "wide-ranged"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "lyre",
            "east-mediterranean"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kithara_technique",
      "name": "Playing technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "kithara_plektron",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Plektron strumming with left-hand damping",
          "descriptors": [
            "bright-attack",
            "ringing",
            "rhythmic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plectrum",
            "strummed"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "kithara_psilo",
          "name": "Bare-finger plucking (psilokitharistike)",
          "descriptors": [
            "soft",
            "intimate",
            "rounded"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "finger-plucked",
            "plucked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kithara_strings",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "kithara_gut",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Sheep-gut strings",
          "descriptors": [
            "warm",
            "quick-decay"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "gut-strung"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "kithara_sinew",
          "name": "Twisted sinew / flax",
          "descriptors": [
            "dry",
            "archaic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "sinew-strung"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "kithara_form",
      "name": "Instrument form",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "kithara_concert",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Classical concert kithara (heavy boxwood arms)",
          "descriptors": [
            "resonant",
            "full-bodied",
            "projecting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "lyre",
            "ancient-greek",
            "plucked"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "kithara_thracian",
          "name": "Thracian / cradle kithara (lighter round-based)",
          "descriptors": [
            "airy",
            "sweet",
            "light"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "lyre",
            "ancient-greek"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "kithara_asiatic",
          "name": "Asiatic kithara (broad-bodied, many strings)",
          "descriptors": [
            "deep-toned",
            "rich",
            "wide-ranged"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "lyre",
            "east-mediterranean"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kithara_technique",
      "name": "Playing technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "kithara_plektron",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Plektron strumming with left-hand damping",
          "descriptors": [
            "bright-attack",
            "ringing",
            "rhythmic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plectrum",
            "strummed"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "kithara_psilo",
          "name": "Bare-finger plucking (psilokitharistike)",
          "descriptors": [
            "soft",
            "intimate",
            "rounded"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "finger-plucked",
            "plucked"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kithara_strings",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "kithara_gut",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Sheep-gut strings",
          "descriptors": [
            "warm",
            "quick-decay"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "gut-strung"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "kithara_sinew",
          "name": "Twisted sinew / flax",
          "descriptors": [
            "dry",
            "archaic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "sinew-strung"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}