{
  "id": "panchavadyam",
  "name": "Panchavadyam (Kerala five-instrument temple percussion ensemble)",
  "family": "percussion",
  "class": "membranophone",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": -1,
    "sustain": 0,
    "polyphony": 1,
    "harmonicity": -1,
    "register": 0,
    "range": 1,
    "articulation": 2,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 2
  },
  "short": "panchavadyam",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "panchavadyam_lead",
      "name": "Lead instrument voicing",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_timila",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Timila-led hourglass drum core",
          "descriptors": [
            "ringing-attack",
            "interlocking",
            "crescendoing"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "temple-percussion",
            "hourglass-drum"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_maddalam",
          "name": "Maddalam-weighted low core",
          "descriptors": [
            "deep-toned",
            "booming",
            "grounding"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "barrel-drum",
            "low-register"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_kombu",
          "name": "Kombu-and-edakka wind-forward blend",
          "descriptors": [
            "blaring",
            "keening",
            "processional"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "curved-horn",
            "temple-procession"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "panchavadyam_tempo",
      "name": "Tala cycle / tempo stage",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_slow",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Opening slow cycle (long thripuda)",
          "descriptors": [
            "spacious",
            "ceremonial",
            "measured"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "slow-cycle"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_halving",
          "name": "Halved cycles (accelerating middle)",
          "descriptors": [
            "building",
            "insistent",
            "dense"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "accelerando"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_climax",
          "name": "Climactic fast finish (idamvattam)",
          "descriptors": [
            "thunderous",
            "frenzied",
            "peak-intensity"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "climax",
            "dense-texture"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "panchavadyam_scale",
      "name": "Ensemble size",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_small",
          "name": "Small temple group (a dozen players)",
          "descriptors": [
            "transparent",
            "articulate"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "small-ensemble"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_large",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Full festival ensemble (hundreds of players)",
          "descriptors": [
            "massed",
            "overwhelming",
            "wall-of-percussion"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "massed-percussion"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "panchavadyam_lead",
      "name": "Lead instrument voicing",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_timila",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Timila-led hourglass drum core",
          "descriptors": [
            "ringing-attack",
            "interlocking",
            "crescendoing"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "temple-percussion",
            "hourglass-drum"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_maddalam",
          "name": "Maddalam-weighted low core",
          "descriptors": [
            "deep-toned",
            "booming",
            "grounding"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "barrel-drum",
            "low-register"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_kombu",
          "name": "Kombu-and-edakka wind-forward blend",
          "descriptors": [
            "blaring",
            "keening",
            "processional"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "curved-horn",
            "temple-procession"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "panchavadyam_tempo",
      "name": "Tala cycle / tempo stage",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_slow",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Opening slow cycle (long thripuda)",
          "descriptors": [
            "spacious",
            "ceremonial",
            "measured"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "slow-cycle"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_halving",
          "name": "Halved cycles (accelerating middle)",
          "descriptors": [
            "building",
            "insistent",
            "dense"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "accelerando"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_climax",
          "name": "Climactic fast finish (idamvattam)",
          "descriptors": [
            "thunderous",
            "frenzied",
            "peak-intensity"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "climax",
            "dense-texture"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "panchavadyam_scale",
      "name": "Ensemble size",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_small",
          "name": "Small temple group (a dozen players)",
          "descriptors": [
            "transparent",
            "articulate"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "small-ensemble"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "panchavadyam_large",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Full festival ensemble (hundreds of players)",
          "descriptors": [
            "massed",
            "overwhelming",
            "wall-of-percussion"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "kerala",
            "massed-percussion"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}