{
  "id": "reed_contrabass",
  "name": "Reed contrabass (contrebasse à anche — ophicleide-derived metal contrabass double reed)",
  "family": "wind",
  "class": "wind_blown",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": 1,
    "sustain": 2,
    "polyphony": -2,
    "harmonicity": -1,
    "register": -2,
    "range": 0,
    "articulation": 0,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 1
  },
  "short": "reed contrabass",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "reed_contrabass_pitch",
      "name": "Pitch",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_pitch_c",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Nominal C (the standard description)",
          "descriptors": [
            "deep-bass",
            "buzzy",
            "foundational"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "low-register",
            "foundational-bass"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "brass"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_pitch_eb",
          "name": "Nominal E♭ (surviving museum examples)",
          "descriptors": [
            "historical",
            "archaic",
            "deep"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "low-register",
            "bass-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical",
            "brass"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "reed_contrabass_maker",
      "name": "Maker pattern",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_maker_mahillon",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Mahillon Brussels / Besson (canonical Belgian-French pattern, from 1868)",
          "descriptors": [
            "canonical",
            "standard",
            "full"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "metallic",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "brass"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_maker_cerveny",
          "name": "Červený Tritonicon (1856 Bohemian original, Kontrafagott aus Metall)",
          "descriptors": [
            "archaic",
            "historical",
            "coarse"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "metallic-rasp",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical",
            "austrian-bohemian"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_maker_italian",
          "name": "Italian pattern (Alziati — still played in banda)",
          "descriptors": [
            "italian",
            "traditional",
            "projecting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "outdoor-projection",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "italian",
            "brass"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "reed_contrabass_role",
      "name": "Ensemble role",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_role_band_bass",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Sustained band bass line under the reed choir",
          "descriptors": [
            "foundational",
            "sustaining",
            "civic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "foundational-bass",
            "outdoor-projection"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "outdoor",
            "processional",
            "brass"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_role_buzzing_pedal",
          "name": "Exposed buzzing pedal / rasp",
          "descriptors": [
            "rasping",
            "gritty",
            "sub-bass"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "metallic-rasp",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "brass"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_role_substitute",
          "name": "Substituted by contrabassoon or contrabass sarrusophone",
          "descriptors": [
            "standard",
            "modern",
            "blended"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "low-register",
            "orchestral"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "orchestral",
            "modern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "reed_contrabass_keywork",
      "name": "Keywork",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_keywork_seventeen",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Seventeen keys, one tone hole per note (ophicleide logic — no alternates, no trill keys)",
          "descriptors": [
            "keyed",
            "archaic",
            "standard"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "keyed",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_keywork_modern_italian",
          "name": "Modernised Italian keywork",
          "descriptors": [
            "modern",
            "responsive",
            "articulate"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "keyed",
            "modern"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "italian",
            "modern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "reed_contrabass_pitch",
      "name": "Pitch",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_pitch_c",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Nominal C (the standard description)",
          "descriptors": [
            "deep-bass",
            "buzzy",
            "foundational"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "low-register",
            "foundational-bass"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "brass"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_pitch_eb",
          "name": "Nominal E♭ (surviving museum examples)",
          "descriptors": [
            "historical",
            "archaic",
            "deep"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "low-register",
            "bass-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical",
            "brass"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "reed_contrabass_maker",
      "name": "Maker pattern",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_maker_mahillon",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Mahillon Brussels / Besson (canonical Belgian-French pattern, from 1868)",
          "descriptors": [
            "canonical",
            "standard",
            "full"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "metallic",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "brass"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_maker_cerveny",
          "name": "Červený Tritonicon (1856 Bohemian original, Kontrafagott aus Metall)",
          "descriptors": [
            "archaic",
            "historical",
            "coarse"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "metallic-rasp",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical",
            "austrian-bohemian"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_maker_italian",
          "name": "Italian pattern (Alziati — still played in banda)",
          "descriptors": [
            "italian",
            "traditional",
            "projecting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "outdoor-projection",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "italian",
            "brass"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "reed_contrabass_role",
      "name": "Ensemble role",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_role_band_bass",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Sustained band bass line under the reed choir",
          "descriptors": [
            "foundational",
            "sustaining",
            "civic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "foundational-bass",
            "outdoor-projection"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "outdoor",
            "processional",
            "brass"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_role_buzzing_pedal",
          "name": "Exposed buzzing pedal / rasp",
          "descriptors": [
            "rasping",
            "gritty",
            "sub-bass"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "metallic-rasp",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "brass"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_role_substitute",
          "name": "Substituted by contrabassoon or contrabass sarrusophone",
          "descriptors": [
            "standard",
            "modern",
            "blended"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "low-register",
            "orchestral"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "orchestral",
            "modern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "reed_contrabass_keywork",
      "name": "Keywork",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_keywork_seventeen",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Seventeen keys, one tone hole per note (ophicleide logic — no alternates, no trill keys)",
          "descriptors": [
            "keyed",
            "archaic",
            "standard"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "keyed",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "reed_contrabass_keywork_modern_italian",
          "name": "Modernised Italian keywork",
          "descriptors": [
            "modern",
            "responsive",
            "articulate"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "wind-driven",
            "reed-driven",
            "keyed",
            "modern"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "italian",
            "modern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}