{
  "id": "simsimiyya",
  "name": "Simsimiyya (Egyptian Canal-Zone/Red Sea lyre)",
  "family": "plucked_traditional",
  "class": "plucked_lyre",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": 1,
    "sustain": -1,
    "polyphony": 0,
    "harmonicity": 1,
    "register": 1,
    "range": -1,
    "articulation": 1,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 0
  },
  "short": "simsimiyya",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "simsimiyya_form",
      "name": "Regional form & tuning",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_port_said",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Port Said sawahli simsimiyya (five-string, steel-strung)",
          "descriptors": [
            "five-string",
            "metal-strung",
            "jangly",
            "maritime"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "lyre",
            "rhythmic-drive"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "egyptian",
            "canal-zone",
            "sawahli"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_sinai_bedouin",
          "name": "Sinai Bedouin simsimiyya (wooden-box, gut/nylon-strung)",
          "descriptors": [
            "bedouin",
            "dry-toned",
            "intimate",
            "campfire"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "lyre",
            "desert-traditional"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "sinai",
            "bedouin"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_expanded_concert",
          "name": "Expanded Port Said concert simsimiyya (12+ strings, lever-tuned maqam)",
          "descriptors": [
            "multi-string",
            "maqam-tuned",
            "modern",
            "wide-voiced"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "lyre"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "egyptian",
            "modern",
            "el-tanbura"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_aqaba_semsemia",
          "name": "Red Sea coast semsemia (Aqaba / Hijazi coastal form)",
          "descriptors": [
            "coastal",
            "warm-toned",
            "fishermens"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "lyre"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "red-sea",
            "aqaba",
            "hijazi"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "simsimiyya_repertoire",
      "name": "Playing context & technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_dammah",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Dammah gathering / sawahli song accompaniment (strum-and-damp)",
          "descriptors": [
            "strum-and-damp",
            "cyclic-ostinato",
            "communal",
            "call-and-response"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "rhythmic-drive",
            "cyclic-ostinato"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "sawahli",
            "port-said"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_bambutiyya",
          "name": "Bambutiyya dance groove",
          "descriptors": [
            "driving",
            "danceable",
            "festive",
            "syncopated"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "rhythmic-drive"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "bambutiyya",
            "dance"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_canal_resistance",
          "name": "Canal-city resistance / exile song (1967-73 Suez repertoire)",
          "descriptors": [
            "defiant",
            "narrative",
            "plaintive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "lyre"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "suez",
            "resistance-song"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "simsimiyya_string_material",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_strings_steel",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Steel wire (modern canonical — bicycle-cable / guitar wire)",
          "descriptors": [
            "metallic",
            "shimmering",
            "bright"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_strings_gut",
          "name": "Gut (historical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "gut-historical",
            "warm",
            "muted"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical-gut"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_strings_nylon",
          "name": "Nylon / fishing-line",
          "descriptors": [
            "rounded",
            "soft-edged",
            "modern"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "simsimiyya_form",
      "name": "Regional form & tuning",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_port_said",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Port Said sawahli simsimiyya (five-string, steel-strung)",
          "descriptors": [
            "five-string",
            "metal-strung",
            "jangly",
            "maritime"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "lyre",
            "rhythmic-drive"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "egyptian",
            "canal-zone",
            "sawahli"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_sinai_bedouin",
          "name": "Sinai Bedouin simsimiyya (wooden-box, gut/nylon-strung)",
          "descriptors": [
            "bedouin",
            "dry-toned",
            "intimate",
            "campfire"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "lyre",
            "desert-traditional"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "sinai",
            "bedouin"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_expanded_concert",
          "name": "Expanded Port Said concert simsimiyya (12+ strings, lever-tuned maqam)",
          "descriptors": [
            "multi-string",
            "maqam-tuned",
            "modern",
            "wide-voiced"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "lyre"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "egyptian",
            "modern",
            "el-tanbura"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_aqaba_semsemia",
          "name": "Red Sea coast semsemia (Aqaba / Hijazi coastal form)",
          "descriptors": [
            "coastal",
            "warm-toned",
            "fishermens"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "lyre"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "red-sea",
            "aqaba",
            "hijazi"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "simsimiyya_repertoire",
      "name": "Playing context & technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_dammah",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Dammah gathering / sawahli song accompaniment (strum-and-damp)",
          "descriptors": [
            "strum-and-damp",
            "cyclic-ostinato",
            "communal",
            "call-and-response"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "rhythmic-drive",
            "cyclic-ostinato"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "sawahli",
            "port-said"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_bambutiyya",
          "name": "Bambutiyya dance groove",
          "descriptors": [
            "driving",
            "danceable",
            "festive",
            "syncopated"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "rhythmic-drive"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "bambutiyya",
            "dance"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_canal_resistance",
          "name": "Canal-city resistance / exile song (1967-73 Suez repertoire)",
          "descriptors": [
            "defiant",
            "narrative",
            "plaintive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "lyre"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "suez",
            "resistance-song"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "simsimiyya_string_material",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_strings_steel",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Steel wire (modern canonical — bicycle-cable / guitar wire)",
          "descriptors": [
            "metallic",
            "shimmering",
            "bright"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_strings_gut",
          "name": "Gut (historical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "gut-historical",
            "warm",
            "muted"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical-gut"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "simsimiyya_strings_nylon",
          "name": "Nylon / fishing-line",
          "descriptors": [
            "rounded",
            "soft-edged",
            "modern"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}