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  "id": "benga",
  "name": "Benga",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Luo guitar-band style of western Kenya and Nairobi codified in the 1960s and 1970s by Daniel Owino Misiani, George Ramogi and the Kabaselleh and Victoria Kings circles — nyatiti lyre plucking patterns transferred to electric guitar in a fast running quaver line at 130-150 BPM over a driving bass, snare-and-hi-hat shuffle and pentatonic paired vocals that give way to a shouted-name instrumental cadenza.",
  "recipe": "classic Southern African mid-1960s benga, functional Song, African pop branch, African pop congolese rumba, string drone modal huayno son jarocho. extended whistle, breath veiled tone, fast rate, interlocked note trading. mahogany ebony open string slide resonance clean strummed single coil electric guitar, alder la bella flats Detroit soul bass canon electric bass, pre muffled edge muffled brushes-and-sticks drum kit, pentatonic eight string nyatiti, orutu, mule hide canonical Cuban premium oak staved canonical Cuban open slap hand drum congas. johannesburg gallo studios 1932-present mid tier johannesburg gallo african studios. dynamic moving-coil, tube pre, BBC broadcast console, vari-mu, passive program EQ. vinyl master cut.",
  "recipe_chars": 737,
  "score": 277.619,
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      "andean_huayno",
      "son_jarocho"
    ],
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          "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected",
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          "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_vocoder_8_band",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_late_1970s_thirds_fifths_octaves"
        },
        "scores": {
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      {
        "id": "electric_guitar_single_coil",
        "slots": {
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          "amp_make": "amp_british_60s_selmer",
          "body_wood": "mahogany",
          "neck_wood": "mahogany_neck",
          "fretboard": "ebony_fb",
          "pickup_magnet": "ceramic",
          "string_material": "nickel_plated",
          "string_gauge": "g_12",
          "bridge": "hardtail",
          "scale_length": "scale_gibson",
          "finish": "nitro",
          "string_tuning": "open_g"
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        "scores": {
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          "bridge": 1.935,
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          "finish": 0.255,
          "string_tuning": 6.24
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      {
        "id": "electric_bass",
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          "body_wood": "alder_b",
          "pickup_config": "humbucker_mm",
          "string_type": "la_bella_flats_motown",
          "scale_length_b": "short_scale_b",
          "fretted_or_not": "fretless",
          "bass_technique": "pick_motown"
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        "scores": {
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      },
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        "id": "drum_kit",
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          "drumhead": "ec_pre_muffled_drumhead",
          "drum_kit_kick_pedal": "dk_kick_single_felt"
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        "scores": {
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          "drumhead": 6.8294999999999995,
          "drum_kit_kick_pedal": 0
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      },
      {
        "id": "nyatiti",
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          "nyatiti_form": "nyatiti_luo_nyanza",
          "nyatiti_repertoire": "nyatiti_dodo_dance",
          "nyatiti_strings": "nyatiti_strings_sisal"
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        "scores": {
          "nyatiti_form": 10,
          "nyatiti_repertoire": 10.525,
          "nyatiti_strings": 1.455
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      },
      {
        "id": "orutu",
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          "bowed_technique": "bowed_legato_classical",
          "orutu_form": "orutu_wood_tube",
          "orutu_context": "orutu_benga",
          "orutu_string_material": "orutu_sisal_lizard"
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        "scores": {
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          "orutu_context": 10.4,
          "orutu_string_material": 1.455
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      },
      {
        "id": "congas",
        "slots": {
          "percussion_technique": "percussion_open_slap",
          "conga_set": "quinto",
          "conga_skin": "conga_mule_hide",
          "conga_shell_wood": "conga_oak_staved"
        },
        "scores": {
          "percussion_technique": 5.715,
          "conga_set": 0.845,
          "conga_skin": 2.145,
          "conga_shell_wood": 2.145
        }
      }
    ],
    "room": "johannesburg_gallo_african_studios",
    "archetype": "arch_gallo_township_jive",
    "inline_chain": {
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      "pre": "transformer_solid_state",
      "console": "console_british_transformer_70s",
      "comp": "comp_dbx_160_vca",
      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "tape_15ips"
    },
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
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  "source": {
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "room": "johannesburg_gallo_african_studios",
    "chain_mic": "dynamic_mic",
    "chain_pre": "transformer_solid_state",
    "chain_comp": "comp_dbx_160_vca",
    "chain_medium": "tape_15ips",
    "chain_console": "console_british_transformer_70s"
  }
}