{
  "id": "nail_violin",
  "name": "Nail violin (Nagelgeige)",
  "family": "percussion",
  "class": "tuned_percussion",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": 2,
    "sustain": 2,
    "polyphony": -1,
    "harmonicity": 2,
    "register": 1,
    "range": 1,
    "articulation": -1,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": -1
  },
  "short": "nail violin",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "nail_violin_rods",
      "name": "Sounding rods",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_iron_brass",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Graduated iron / brass nails around a semicircular soundboard (Wilde 1740)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wrought-iron",
            "bell-like",
            "sweet"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "metallic-ring",
            "natural-harmonics"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "friction_idiophone",
            "historical"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_glass_rods",
          "name": "Glass rods in place of nails",
          "descriptors": [
            "glass",
            "glassy",
            "fragile"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "glassy"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "friction_idiophone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_wooden_rods",
          "name": "Wooden rods (Stockspiel / Melkharmonica type)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wooden",
            "dry",
            "soft-toned"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "wood-toned",
            "soft-toned"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "friction_idiophone",
            "historical"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_adiaphonon",
          "name": "Bowed steel rods (Schuster Adiaphonon, 1818-19)",
          "descriptors": [
            "metal-rods",
            "wide-compass",
            "historical"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "metallic-ring",
            "wide-range"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "nail_violin_excitation",
      "name": "Excitation",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_horsehair_bow",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Coarse black-horsehair bow",
          "descriptors": [
            "horsehair",
            "keening",
            "penetrating"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "friction-driven",
            "sustained-tone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_struck",
          "name": "Struck nails (bell-like attack)",
          "descriptors": [
            "bell-like",
            "fast-decay",
            "chiming"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "struck",
            "metallic-ring",
            "bell"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_rosined_hands",
          "name": "Rosined gloves or bare fingers and palms (Stockspiel, Array Nail Violin)",
          "descriptors": [
            "friction-driven",
            "hand-held",
            "intimate"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "hands",
            "soft"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "friction_technique"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "nail_violin_layout",
      "name": "Layout / sympathetic extension",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_single_chest",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Single half-moon sound-chest, about 37 chromatic pins",
          "descriptors": [
            "single",
            "chromatic",
            "compact"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "chromatic"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_terraced_two_chest",
          "name": "Terraced two-chest layout (diatonic row above, semitones below)",
          "descriptors": [
            "two-chambered",
            "layered",
            "refined"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "chromatic"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_violino_harmonico",
          "name": "Violino harmonico - about 49 pins plus 15-16 sympathetic strings (Senal, c.1780-90)",
          "descriptors": [
            "sympathetic-halo",
            "resonance-saturated",
            "virtuoso"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "sympathetic-resonant"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical",
            "solo"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_traeger_keyboard",
          "name": "Treadle-operated keyboard version (Traeger of Bernburg, 1791)",
          "descriptors": [
            "keyed",
            "wheel-treadle",
            "mechanical"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "keyed",
            "bowed"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "nail_violin_rods",
      "name": "Sounding rods",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_iron_brass",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Graduated iron / brass nails around a semicircular soundboard (Wilde 1740)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wrought-iron",
            "bell-like",
            "sweet"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "metallic-ring",
            "natural-harmonics"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "friction_idiophone",
            "historical"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_glass_rods",
          "name": "Glass rods in place of nails",
          "descriptors": [
            "glass",
            "glassy",
            "fragile"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "glassy"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "friction_idiophone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_wooden_rods",
          "name": "Wooden rods (Stockspiel / Melkharmonica type)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wooden",
            "dry",
            "soft-toned"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "wood-toned",
            "soft-toned"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "friction_idiophone",
            "historical"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_adiaphonon",
          "name": "Bowed steel rods (Schuster Adiaphonon, 1818-19)",
          "descriptors": [
            "metal-rods",
            "wide-compass",
            "historical"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "metallic-ring",
            "wide-range"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "nail_violin_excitation",
      "name": "Excitation",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_horsehair_bow",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Coarse black-horsehair bow",
          "descriptors": [
            "horsehair",
            "keening",
            "penetrating"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "friction-driven",
            "sustained-tone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_struck",
          "name": "Struck nails (bell-like attack)",
          "descriptors": [
            "bell-like",
            "fast-decay",
            "chiming"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "struck",
            "metallic-ring",
            "bell"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_rosined_hands",
          "name": "Rosined gloves or bare fingers and palms (Stockspiel, Array Nail Violin)",
          "descriptors": [
            "friction-driven",
            "hand-held",
            "intimate"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "hands",
            "soft"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "friction_technique"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "nail_violin_layout",
      "name": "Layout / sympathetic extension",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_single_chest",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Single half-moon sound-chest, about 37 chromatic pins",
          "descriptors": [
            "single",
            "chromatic",
            "compact"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "chromatic"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_terraced_two_chest",
          "name": "Terraced two-chest layout (diatonic row above, semitones below)",
          "descriptors": [
            "two-chambered",
            "layered",
            "refined"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "chromatic"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_violino_harmonico",
          "name": "Violino harmonico - about 49 pins plus 15-16 sympathetic strings (Senal, c.1780-90)",
          "descriptors": [
            "sympathetic-halo",
            "resonance-saturated",
            "virtuoso"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "bowed",
            "sympathetic-resonant"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical",
            "solo"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "nail_violin_traeger_keyboard",
          "name": "Treadle-operated keyboard version (Traeger of Bernburg, 1791)",
          "descriptors": [
            "keyed",
            "wheel-treadle",
            "mechanical"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "friction-driven",
            "keyed",
            "bowed"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}