{
  "id": "mellotron",
  "name": "Mellotron (tape sample keyboard)",
  "family": "keyboard",
  "class": "keyboard_electric",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": 2,
    "sustain": 1,
    "polyphony": 1,
    "harmonicity": 1,
    "register": 0,
    "range": 1,
    "articulation": 0,
    "transduction": 1,
    "dynamics": 0
  },
  "short": "mellotron",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "keyboard_technique",
      "name": "Playing approach",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "keyboard_block_chord_pop",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Block-chord pop",
          "descriptors": [
            "block-chord"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "chordal",
            "keyboard-driven"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "pop",
            "singer-songwriter"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "keyboard_arpeggio_sustain_rich",
          "name": "Arpeggiated sustain-rich",
          "applies_to": [
            "grand_piano",
            "rhodes_electric",
            "mellotron",
            "electric_piano_tine",
            "tape_replay_keyboard",
            "pipe_organ"
          ],
          "descriptors": [
            "arpeggiated",
            "sustain-rich-overtones"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "arpeggio-decoration",
            "sustained",
            "keyboard-driven"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "pop",
            "shoegaze"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "_fromFamily": true
    },
    {
      "id": "mellotron_voice",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Tape sample",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "mellotron_strings",
          "name": "Strings (M300)",
          "descriptors": [
            "haunted-romantic",
            "prog-rock",
            "vintage"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_choir",
          "name": "Choir",
          "descriptors": [
            "prog-rock",
            "distinctive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_flute",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Flute",
          "descriptors": [
            "distinctive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "60s-pop"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mellotron_context",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Use context",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "mellotron_psych",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Late-sixties psychedelic",
          "descriptors": [],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_prog",
          "name": "Progressive rock seventies",
          "descriptors": [
            "extended-tracks",
            "symphonic",
            "genre-defining"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_indie",
          "name": "Modern indie / dream-pop",
          "descriptors": [
            "twenty-first-century-revival",
            "atmospheric"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "studio"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mellotron_model",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Mellotron model",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "mellotron_m400_canonical",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Mellotron M400 (canonical 1970-1980 — prog-rock standard, simplified 35-key)",
          "descriptors": [
            "mellotron-m400-canonical-1970-1980-prog-rock-standard-35-key"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vintage"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_mkii_streetly",
          "name": "Mellotron Mark II Streetly (canonical 1964-1968 — early Mellotron era)",
          "descriptors": [
            "mellotron-mkii-streetly-canonical-1964-1968-early-era"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vintage"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_m300",
          "name": "Mellotron M300 (1968 transitional)",
          "descriptors": [
            "mellotron-m300-1968-transitional"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vintage"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_m4000d_modern",
          "name": "Mellotron M4000D (modern digital reissue post-2007)",
          "descriptors": [
            "mellotron-m4000d-modern-digital-reissue-post-2007"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mellotron_tape_material",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Tape material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "mellotron_polyester_tape_canonical",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Polyester-base 1/4-inch tape with iron-oxide coating (canonical Mellotron)",
          "descriptors": [
            "polyester-base-quarter-inch-iron-oxide-canonical-mellotron"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "mellotron_voice",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Tape sample",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "mellotron_strings",
          "name": "Strings (M300)",
          "descriptors": [
            "haunted-romantic",
            "prog-rock",
            "vintage"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_choir",
          "name": "Choir",
          "descriptors": [
            "prog-rock",
            "distinctive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_flute",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Flute",
          "descriptors": [
            "distinctive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "60s-pop"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mellotron_context",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Use context",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "mellotron_psych",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Late-sixties psychedelic",
          "descriptors": [],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_prog",
          "name": "Progressive rock seventies",
          "descriptors": [
            "extended-tracks",
            "symphonic",
            "genre-defining"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_indie",
          "name": "Modern indie / dream-pop",
          "descriptors": [
            "twenty-first-century-revival",
            "atmospheric"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "studio"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mellotron_model",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Mellotron model",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "mellotron_m400_canonical",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Mellotron M400 (canonical 1970-1980 — prog-rock standard, simplified 35-key)",
          "descriptors": [
            "mellotron-m400-canonical-1970-1980-prog-rock-standard-35-key"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vintage"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_mkii_streetly",
          "name": "Mellotron Mark II Streetly (canonical 1964-1968 — early Mellotron era)",
          "descriptors": [
            "mellotron-mkii-streetly-canonical-1964-1968-early-era"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vintage"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_m300",
          "name": "Mellotron M300 (1968 transitional)",
          "descriptors": [
            "mellotron-m300-1968-transitional"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "vintage"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "mellotron_m4000d_modern",
          "name": "Mellotron M4000D (modern digital reissue post-2007)",
          "descriptors": [
            "mellotron-m4000d-modern-digital-reissue-post-2007"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mellotron_tape_material",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Tape material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "mellotron_polyester_tape_canonical",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Polyester-base 1/4-inch tape with iron-oxide coating (canonical Mellotron)",
          "descriptors": [
            "polyester-base-quarter-inch-iron-oxide-canonical-mellotron"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "electric",
            "sample-based"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}