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  "id": "balalaika_orchestra",
  "name": "Russian balalaika orchestra",
  "family": "vernacular",
  "lineage": "The Russian folk-instrument orchestra invented in St Petersburg in 1887-1896 when Vasily Andreyev standardized the triangular balalaika into a chromatic fretted family (prima through kontrabass) and added the reconstructed domra and the chromatic bayan, playing quick 2/4 and 4/4 dance sets, chastushka tunes and arranged art music with tremolo-sustained melody lines, strummed rhythm chords and a bowed-bass-substitute kontrabass balalaika pulse.",
  "recipe": "classic Eastern European mid-1890s russian balalaika orchestra, domestic Rhythm, Slavic baltic branch, Slavic balkan field work, string drone modal, europop functional song huayno bulgarian folk. thick, breath veiled tone, breath pulsed, interlocked note trading. prima andreyev concert orchestra canonical revival strummed balalaika, orchestral bass rare spruce maple andreyev gut pre andreyev historical strummed domra, b system buttons stradella bass Russian tradition song accompaniment chastushka dance bayan russian, silver wound lamb gut core Baroque setup lighter bass bar no endpin double bass. moscow state label 1964-present major-flagship moscow melodiya studio. Neumann U47, German V72 tube pre, German tube console, Telefunken u73b broadcast comp, broadcast loudness EQ. tape 15ips hall reverb.",
  "recipe_chars": 808,
  "score": 214.84,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "balalaika_orchestra",
      "andean_huayno",
      "bulgarian_folk"
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        "id": "balalaika",
        "slots": {
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          "balalaika_size": "prima_balalaika",
          "balalaika_strings": "steel_balalaika",
          "balalaika_body_wood": "balalaika_spruce_maple",
          "balalaika_tradition": "balalaika_andreyev_concert"
        },
        "scores": {
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          "balalaika_size": 3.1700000000000004,
          "balalaika_strings": 0.78,
          "balalaika_body_wood": 0.65,
          "balalaika_tradition": 4.55
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      },
      {
        "id": "domra",
        "slots": {
          "plucked_traditional_technique": "plucked_folk_strummed",
          "domra_courses": "three_string_domra",
          "domra_size": "domra_bass",
          "domra_body_wood": "domra_spruce_maple",
          "domra_strings": "domra_gut_historical"
        },
        "scores": {
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          "domra_courses": 6.24,
          "domra_size": 1.6,
          "domra_body_wood": 1,
          "domra_strings": 1.7499999999999998
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      },
      {
        "id": "bayan_russian",
        "slots": {
          "free_reed_technique": "free_reed_folk_first_position",
          "bayan_russian_model": "bayan_russian_tula_standard",
          "bayan_russian_context": "bayan_russian_folk_song_dance",
          "bayan_russian_reed_voicing": "bayan_russian_dry_unison"
        },
        "scores": {
          "free_reed_technique": 5.82,
          "bayan_russian_model": 5.59,
          "bayan_russian_context": 6.434999999999999,
          "bayan_russian_reed_voicing": 2.325
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      },
      {
        "id": "double_bass",
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          "bass_size": "bass_three_quarter",
          "bass_strings": "silver_wound_lamb_gut_bass",
          "bass_top_wood": "carpathian_spruce_bass",
          "bass_back_wood": "bosnian_flamed_maple_bass",
          "bass_varnish": "spirit_varnish_bass",
          "bass_setup_period": "baroque_setup_bass",
          "bass_play": "bass_arco",
          "bass_rosin": "nyman_bass_rosin",
          "bass_bow_stick": "snakewood_stick_bass"
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          "bass_bow_stick": 0.745
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      },
      {
        "id": "voice",
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          "voice_register": "chest_voice",
          "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice",
          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
          "voice_vibrato": "diaphragm_vibrato",
          "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice",
          "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected",
          "voice_tradition": "mediterranean_demotic_tradition",
          "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed",
          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_nasal_twang",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_andean_huayno",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_drone_overtone_harmonic_series",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_melodyne_microtuned",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_late_1980s_reverb_saturated_bus"
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    "room": "moscow_melodiya_studio",
    "archetype": "arch_melodiya_state",
    "inline_chain": {
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      "pre": "pre_tube_german_v72",
      "console": "console_german_tube_50s",
      "comp": null,
      "eq": "eq_passive_program_pultec",
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "tape_15ips"
    },
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
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  "source": {
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "room": "moscow_melodiya_studio",
    "chain_mic": "mic_u47_tube_neumann",
    "chain_pre": "pre_tube_german_v72",
    "chain_eq": "eq_passive_program_pultec",
    "chain_medium": "tape_15ips",
    "chain_console": "console_german_tube_50s"
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