{
  "id": "touxian",
  "name": "Touxian (Chaozhou xianshi leading fiddle)",
  "family": "bowed",
  "class": "bowed_spike_fiddle",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": -2,
    "sustain": 2,
    "polyphony": -2,
    "harmonicity": 0,
    "register": 2,
    "range": 0,
    "articulation": 2,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 0
  },
  "short": "touxian",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "bowed_technique",
      "name": "Bow technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bowed_legato_classical",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Classical legato",
          "descriptors": [
            "legato",
            "sustained"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "classical",
            "classical-trained"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "classical"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "_fromFamily": true
    },
    {
      "id": "touxian_role",
      "name": "Ensemble role",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "touxian_role_xianshi",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Xianshi string-ensemble lead (sets tempo and mode for the whole band)",
          "descriptors": [
            "ensemble-lead",
            "high-pitched",
            "driving"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "lead-melody",
            "high-register",
            "ensemble"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "china",
            "lead"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "touxian_role_opera",
          "name": "Chaozhou opera pit lead",
          "descriptors": [
            "operatic",
            "cutting",
            "declamatory"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "piercing",
            "accompaniment"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "chinese-opera",
            "china"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "touxian_role_club",
          "name": "Teochew diaspora amateur music-club ensemble",
          "descriptors": [
            "chamber",
            "refined",
            "interlocking"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "chamber-fed",
            "ensemble"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "chamber",
            "east-asia"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "touxian_strings",
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "touxian_strings_steel",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Steel (modern standard)",
          "descriptors": [
            "steel",
            "cutting",
            "modern"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "steel-string",
            "piercing"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern",
            "steel"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "touxian_strings_silk",
          "name": "Silk (pre-modern historical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "silk",
            "pre-modern",
            "warm-nasal"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "silk-strung",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "touxian_idiom",
      "name": "Playing idiom",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "touxian_idiom_driving",
          "default": true,
          "name": "High driving lead over the slower tihu and yehu",
          "descriptors": [
            "driving",
            "penetrating",
            "lead-melodic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "piercing",
            "lead"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "china",
            "lead"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "touxian_idiom_ornate",
          "name": "Dense heterophonic elaboration of the skeleton tune",
          "descriptors": [
            "ornamented",
            "heterophonic",
            "crisp"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ornamented",
            "melodic"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "china",
            "traditional"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "touxian_idiom_plain",
          "name": "Plain unornamented outline (holding the band together)",
          "descriptors": [
            "measured",
            "supporting",
            "clear"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ensemble",
            "clear"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "china",
            "ensemble"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "touxian_role",
      "name": "Ensemble role",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "touxian_role_xianshi",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Xianshi string-ensemble lead (sets tempo and mode for the whole band)",
          "descriptors": [
            "ensemble-lead",
            "high-pitched",
            "driving"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "lead-melody",
            "high-register",
            "ensemble"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "china",
            "lead"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "touxian_role_opera",
          "name": "Chaozhou opera pit lead",
          "descriptors": [
            "operatic",
            "cutting",
            "declamatory"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "piercing",
            "accompaniment"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "chinese-opera",
            "china"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "touxian_role_club",
          "name": "Teochew diaspora amateur music-club ensemble",
          "descriptors": [
            "chamber",
            "refined",
            "interlocking"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "chamber-fed",
            "ensemble"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "chamber",
            "east-asia"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "touxian_strings",
      "name": "String material",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "touxian_strings_steel",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Steel (modern standard)",
          "descriptors": [
            "steel",
            "cutting",
            "modern"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "steel-string",
            "piercing"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern",
            "steel"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "touxian_strings_silk",
          "name": "Silk (pre-modern historical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "silk",
            "pre-modern",
            "warm-nasal"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "silk-strung",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "historical"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "touxian_idiom",
      "name": "Playing idiom",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "touxian_idiom_driving",
          "default": true,
          "name": "High driving lead over the slower tihu and yehu",
          "descriptors": [
            "driving",
            "penetrating",
            "lead-melodic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "piercing",
            "lead"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "china",
            "lead"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "touxian_idiom_ornate",
          "name": "Dense heterophonic elaboration of the skeleton tune",
          "descriptors": [
            "ornamented",
            "heterophonic",
            "crisp"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ornamented",
            "melodic"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "china",
            "traditional"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "touxian_idiom_plain",
          "name": "Plain unornamented outline (holding the band together)",
          "descriptors": [
            "measured",
            "supporting",
            "clear"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "ensemble",
            "clear"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "china",
            "ensemble"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}