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Japanese factory birch laminated maple laminated Asian spruce hokkaido source grand piano, cedar nylon strummed open chord ringing overtones classical nylon-string guitar, string quartet inst, European maple sycamore maple Baroque setup lighter bass bar no endpin double bass, yellow brass canonical 70 30 bach stradivarius bach stradivarius 180 canonical American orchestral heavy one piece matched to monette horn legato trumpet, pre muffled edge muffled brushes-and-sticks drum kit, lead congas. mexico city RCA victor mexicana 1930-1965 mid tier mexico bolero xochimilco studio. Neumann U47, tube pre, colored vintage console, LA-2A optical, passive program EQ. tape 15ips plate reverb.", "recipe_chars": 920, "score": 269.01, "config": { "traditions": [ "cancion_melodica", "broadway", "baladas_y_boleros" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "extended_whistle_register", "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "slow_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice", "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected", "voice_tradition": "modern_pop_vocal_training", "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_flamenco_cante_jondo", "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_meantone_quarter_comma", "voice_processing_chain": 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