{
  "id": "waterphone",
  "name": "Waterphone (Waters bowed water-resonator)",
  "family": "percussion",
  "class": "idiophone",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": -1,
    "sustain": 2,
    "polyphony": 0,
    "harmonicity": -1,
    "register": 1,
    "range": 1,
    "articulation": -1,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 0
  },
  "short": "waterphone",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "waterphone_model",
      "name": "Model / size",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "waterphone_standard",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Standard (original AquaSonic)",
          "descriptors": [
            "keening",
            "shimmering",
            "unsettling"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "rough-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "horror-scoring",
            "free-improvisation"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_bass",
          "name": "Bass (larger resonator pan)",
          "descriptors": [
            "deep",
            "moaning",
            "resonant"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "dark-ambient"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_megabass",
          "name": "MegaBass (largest pan, deepest voice)",
          "descriptors": [
            "cavernous",
            "abyssal",
            "booming"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "drone-foundation",
            "rough-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "dark-ambient",
            "drone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_whaler",
          "name": "Whaler (flared tonewell, whale-call voice)",
          "descriptors": [
            "whale-song",
            "vocal",
            "gliding"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "free-improvisation"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "waterphone_excitation",
      "name": "Excitation technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "waterphone_bowed_rods",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Bowed rods with water-tilt glissando",
          "descriptors": [
            "keening",
            "pitch-bending",
            "ghostly"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_superball_friction",
          "name": "Superball friction mallet dragged on resonator",
          "descriptors": [
            "groaning",
            "friction-driven",
            "whale-like"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "rough-tone",
            "sustained-tone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_struck_rods",
          "name": "Struck rods and pan (mallets / fingertips)",
          "descriptors": [
            "clangorous",
            "bell-like",
            "water-warbled"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "struck",
            "rough-tone"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "waterphone_context",
      "name": "Playing context",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "waterphone_suspense_scoring",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Horror / suspense scoring cue",
          "descriptors": [
            "cinematic",
            "dread-building",
            "atmospheric"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "horror-scoring",
            "film-scoring"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_free_improv",
          "name": "Non-idiomatic free improvisation",
          "descriptors": [
            "exploratory",
            "textural",
            "extended-technique"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "struck",
            "rough-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "free-improvisation"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_dark_ambient_ritual",
          "name": "Dark ambient / ritual drone layering",
          "descriptors": [
            "ritual",
            "droning",
            "subterranean"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "drone-foundation",
            "sustained-tone",
            "trance-inducing"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "dark-ambient",
            "drone"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "waterphone_construction",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Construction",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "waterphone_bronze_stainless",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Bronze rods brazed to stainless-steel pan (canonical AquaSonic)",
          "descriptors": [
            "bronze-rods-canonical-aquasonic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "rough-tone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_brass_replica",
          "name": "Brass-rod workshop replica",
          "descriptors": [
            "brass-rods-replica"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "waterphone_model",
      "name": "Model / size",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "waterphone_standard",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Standard (original AquaSonic)",
          "descriptors": [
            "keening",
            "shimmering",
            "unsettling"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "rough-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "horror-scoring",
            "free-improvisation"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_bass",
          "name": "Bass (larger resonator pan)",
          "descriptors": [
            "deep",
            "moaning",
            "resonant"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "dark-ambient"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_megabass",
          "name": "MegaBass (largest pan, deepest voice)",
          "descriptors": [
            "cavernous",
            "abyssal",
            "booming"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "drone-foundation",
            "rough-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "dark-ambient",
            "drone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_whaler",
          "name": "Whaler (flared tonewell, whale-call voice)",
          "descriptors": [
            "whale-song",
            "vocal",
            "gliding"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "free-improvisation"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "waterphone_excitation",
      "name": "Excitation technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "waterphone_bowed_rods",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Bowed rods with water-tilt glissando",
          "descriptors": [
            "keening",
            "pitch-bending",
            "ghostly"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_superball_friction",
          "name": "Superball friction mallet dragged on resonator",
          "descriptors": [
            "groaning",
            "friction-driven",
            "whale-like"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "rough-tone",
            "sustained-tone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_struck_rods",
          "name": "Struck rods and pan (mallets / fingertips)",
          "descriptors": [
            "clangorous",
            "bell-like",
            "water-warbled"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "struck",
            "rough-tone"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "waterphone_context",
      "name": "Playing context",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "waterphone_suspense_scoring",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Horror / suspense scoring cue",
          "descriptors": [
            "cinematic",
            "dread-building",
            "atmospheric"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "horror-scoring",
            "film-scoring"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_free_improv",
          "name": "Non-idiomatic free improvisation",
          "descriptors": [
            "exploratory",
            "textural",
            "extended-technique"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "struck",
            "rough-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "free-improvisation"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_dark_ambient_ritual",
          "name": "Dark ambient / ritual drone layering",
          "descriptors": [
            "ritual",
            "droning",
            "subterranean"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "drone-foundation",
            "sustained-tone",
            "trance-inducing"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "dark-ambient",
            "drone"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "waterphone_construction",
      "surface": false,
      "name": "Construction",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "waterphone_bronze_stainless",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Bronze rods brazed to stainless-steel pan (canonical AquaSonic)",
          "descriptors": [
            "bronze-rods-canonical-aquasonic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "rough-tone"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "waterphone_brass_replica",
          "name": "Brass-rod workshop replica",
          "descriptors": [
            "brass-rods-replica"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}