{
  "id": "viola_damore",
  "name": "Viola d'amore (baroque sympathetic-string viola)",
  "family": "bowed",
  "class": "bowed_string",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": -2,
    "sustain": 2,
    "polyphony": 0,
    "harmonicity": 1,
    "register": 0,
    "range": 2,
    "articulation": 1,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 0
  },
  "short": "viola d'amore",
  "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": "viola_damore_form",
      "name": "Historical form",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_seven_string",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Classic 18th-century (7 playing + 7 sympathetic strings, D-major tuning)",
          "descriptors": [
            "silvery",
            "sympathetic-halo",
            "d-major-tuned",
            "cupid-headed"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "baroque",
            "period",
            "vivaldi-era"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_six_string_early",
          "name": "Early 6-string form (Biber-era, wire-strung, often without sympathetics)",
          "descriptors": [
            "early-baroque",
            "wire-strung",
            "leaner",
            "scordatura-ready"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "seventeenth-century",
            "austrian-bohemian"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_englische_violett",
          "name": "Englisches Violet (Viennese, 7 playing + 14 sympathetic strings)",
          "descriptors": [
            "viennese",
            "resonance-saturated",
            "shimmering"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "viennese",
            "classical-era"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_modern_revival",
          "name": "Modern revival instrument (Hindemith / Janáček orchestral use)",
          "descriptors": [
            "revival",
            "orchestral-color",
            "projecting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "modern"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "twentieth-century",
            "revival"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "viola_damore_repertoire",
      "name": "Repertoire / playing context",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_solo_concerto",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Solo concerto (Vivaldi RV 392-397 style)",
          "descriptors": [
            "virtuosic",
            "glittering",
            "chordal-figuration"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning",
            "classical-trained"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "baroque",
            "venetian"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_passion_obbligato",
          "name": "Sacred aria obbligato (baroque Passion setting)",
          "descriptors": [
            "devotional",
            "intimate",
            "aria-partner",
            "veiled"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "baroque",
            "sacred",
            "lutheran"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_scordatura_sonata",
          "name": "Scordatura chamber sonata (Austrian and Stockholm baroque sonatas)",
          "descriptors": [
            "scordatura",
            "resonant-tuning",
            "conversational"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "baroque",
            "chamber"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "viola_damore_stringing",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Stringing / construction",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_gut_over_wire",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Gut playing strings over brass/steel sympathetics (canonical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "gut-over-wire-canonical",
            "flame-soundholes",
            "flat-back"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "baroque",
            "period"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_all_wire",
          "name": "All-wire stringing (early 17th-century practice)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wire-strung-early",
            "brighter",
            "harpsichord-like-shimmer"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "seventeenth-century"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_wound_synthetic_modern",
          "name": "Wound gut / synthetic (modern revival setup)",
          "descriptors": [
            "modern-revival-stringing",
            "stable",
            "fuller"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "modern"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern",
            "revival"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "viola_damore_form",
      "name": "Historical form",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_seven_string",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Classic 18th-century (7 playing + 7 sympathetic strings, D-major tuning)",
          "descriptors": [
            "silvery",
            "sympathetic-halo",
            "d-major-tuned",
            "cupid-headed"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "baroque",
            "period",
            "vivaldi-era"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_six_string_early",
          "name": "Early 6-string form (Biber-era, wire-strung, often without sympathetics)",
          "descriptors": [
            "early-baroque",
            "wire-strung",
            "leaner",
            "scordatura-ready"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "seventeenth-century",
            "austrian-bohemian"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_englische_violett",
          "name": "Englisches Violet (Viennese, 7 playing + 14 sympathetic strings)",
          "descriptors": [
            "viennese",
            "resonance-saturated",
            "shimmering"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "viennese",
            "classical-era"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_modern_revival",
          "name": "Modern revival instrument (Hindemith / Janáček orchestral use)",
          "descriptors": [
            "revival",
            "orchestral-color",
            "projecting"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "modern"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "twentieth-century",
            "revival"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "viola_damore_repertoire",
      "name": "Repertoire / playing context",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_solo_concerto",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Solo concerto (Vivaldi RV 392-397 style)",
          "descriptors": [
            "virtuosic",
            "glittering",
            "chordal-figuration"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning",
            "classical-trained"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "baroque",
            "venetian"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_passion_obbligato",
          "name": "Sacred aria obbligato (baroque Passion setting)",
          "descriptors": [
            "devotional",
            "intimate",
            "aria-partner",
            "veiled"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "baroque",
            "sacred",
            "lutheran"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_scordatura_sonata",
          "name": "Scordatura chamber sonata (Austrian and Stockholm baroque sonatas)",
          "descriptors": [
            "scordatura",
            "resonant-tuning",
            "conversational"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "baroque",
            "chamber"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "viola_damore_stringing",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Stringing / construction",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_gut_over_wire",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Gut playing strings over brass/steel sympathetics (canonical)",
          "descriptors": [
            "gut-over-wire-canonical",
            "flame-soundholes",
            "flat-back"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "period-performance"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "baroque",
            "period"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_all_wire",
          "name": "All-wire stringing (early 17th-century practice)",
          "descriptors": [
            "wire-strung-early",
            "brighter",
            "harpsichord-like-shimmer"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "baroque-leaning"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "seventeenth-century"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "viola_damore_wound_synthetic_modern",
          "name": "Wound gut / synthetic (modern revival setup)",
          "descriptors": [
            "modern-revival-stringing",
            "stable",
            "fuller"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "modern"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "modern",
            "revival"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}