{
  "id": "udukkai",
  "name": "Udukkai (Tamil hourglass tension drum)",
  "family": "percussion",
  "class": "hourglass_drum",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": -1,
    "sustain": -1,
    "polyphony": -2,
    "harmonicity": -1,
    "register": 0,
    "range": 1,
    "articulation": 2,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 1
  },
  "short": "udukkai",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "udukkai_form",
      "name": "Regional form",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "udukkai_temple",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Temple udukkai (wooden hourglass shell)",
          "descriptors": [
            "bending-pitch",
            "ritual",
            "sharp-attack"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum",
            "tamil"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "udukkai_folk",
          "name": "Folk village udukkai (smaller, brass shell)",
          "descriptors": [
            "bright-attack",
            "cutting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum",
            "folk-drum"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "udukkai_udukku",
          "name": "Kerala udukku (thin-waisted variant)",
          "descriptors": [
            "nasal-timbre",
            "talkative"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum",
            "kerala"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "udukkai_head",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Head and lacing",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "udukkai_goat_cord",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Goatskin heads with cotton tension cord",
          "descriptors": [
            "warm-attack",
            "pitch-bending"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "udukkai_lizard",
          "name": "Thin reptile-skin heads (archaic)",
          "descriptors": [
            "dry-tone",
            "piercing"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "udukkai_technique",
      "name": "Playing technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "udukkai_squeeze",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Squeeze-and-strike glissando patterns",
          "descriptors": [
            "bending-pitch",
            "speech-like"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum",
            "tension-squeeze"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "udukkai_steady",
          "name": "Steady accompaniment stroke for song",
          "descriptors": [
            "driving",
            "pulse-keeping"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum",
            "dance-rhythm"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "udukkai_form",
      "name": "Regional form",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "udukkai_temple",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Temple udukkai (wooden hourglass shell)",
          "descriptors": [
            "bending-pitch",
            "ritual",
            "sharp-attack"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum",
            "tamil"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "udukkai_folk",
          "name": "Folk village udukkai (smaller, brass shell)",
          "descriptors": [
            "bright-attack",
            "cutting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum",
            "folk-drum"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "udukkai_udukku",
          "name": "Kerala udukku (thin-waisted variant)",
          "descriptors": [
            "nasal-timbre",
            "talkative"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum",
            "kerala"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "udukkai_head",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Head and lacing",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "udukkai_goat_cord",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Goatskin heads with cotton tension cord",
          "descriptors": [
            "warm-attack",
            "pitch-bending"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "udukkai_lizard",
          "name": "Thin reptile-skin heads (archaic)",
          "descriptors": [
            "dry-tone",
            "piercing"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "udukkai_technique",
      "name": "Playing technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "udukkai_squeeze",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Squeeze-and-strike glissando patterns",
          "descriptors": [
            "bending-pitch",
            "speech-like"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum",
            "tension-squeeze"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "udukkai_steady",
          "name": "Steady accompaniment stroke for song",
          "descriptors": [
            "driving",
            "pulse-keeping"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "hourglass-drum",
            "dance-rhythm"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}