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finger picks maple body Turkish school goat skin bridge plate drone like qanun, carpathian spruce European maple bosnian source flamed figure oil varnish violin orchestral, Egyptian sombaty canonical mid east darbuka, walnut bent frame canonical Iranian goat skin canonical Sufi tar frame drum, walnut ribs canonical mid tier Lebanese cedar eastern Mediterranean la bella oud. stone plaster medina room. large-diaphragm condenser, German V72 tube pre, German tube console. tape 15ips.", "recipe_chars": 900, "score": 326.695, "config": { "traditions": [ "chaabi_algerien", "khaleeji_iraqi", "azeri_traditional" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "mandole", "slots": { "mandole_form": "mandole_chaabi", "mandole_role": "mandole_melodic", "mandole_strings": "mandole_steel" }, "scores": { "mandole_form": 17.174999999999997, "mandole_role": 3.8049999999999997, "mandole_strings": -0.05 } }, { "id": "banjo_5_string", "slots": { "banjo_back": "resonator", "tone_ring": "wood_ring", "banjo_head": "fiberskyn", "banjo_pot": "pot_11", "banjo_play": "clawhammer", "banjo_rim_wood": "banjo_walnut_rim", "banjo_neck_wood": "banjo_walnut_neck", "banjo_strings": "banjo_light_clawhammer", "banjo_bridge": "banjo_compensated_bridge", "banjo_setup_period": "banjo_scruggs_bluegrass_setup" }, "scores": { "banjo_back": 0.195, "tone_ring": 0.24, "banjo_head": 13.129999999999999, "banjo_pot": 0.195, "banjo_play": 1.1949999999999998, "banjo_rim_wood": 0.39, "banjo_neck_wood": 2.47, "banjo_strings": 0.195, "banjo_bridge": 0, "banjo_setup_period": 12.674999999999997 } }, { "id": "qanun", "slots": { "plucked_traditional_technique": "plucked_drone_modal", "qanun_strings": "qanun_arab_72", "qanun_levers": "mandal_brass", "qanun_pick": "qanun_finger_picks", "qanun_body_wood": "qanun_maple_body", "qanun_bridge_skin": "qanun_goat_skin_bridge", "qanun_string_material": "qanun_fluorocarbon" }, "scores": { "plucked_traditional_technique": 7.8975, "qanun_strings": 3.25, "qanun_levers": -1.05, "qanun_pick": 3.25, "qanun_body_wood": 1.245, "qanun_bridge_skin": 1.125, "qanun_string_material": 0 } }, { "id": "violin_orchestral", "slots": { "bowed_technique": "bowed_pizzicato", "orch_strings": "steel_orch", "orch_top_wood": "carpathian_spruce_violin", "orch_back_wood": "bosnian_flamed_maple_violin", "orch_varnish": "oil_amber_varnish_violin", "orch_setup_period": "modern_setup_violin", "orch_bow": "baroque_bow", "orch_bow_stick": "pernambuco_stick_orch", "orch_articulation": "sul_pont_orch", "orch_rosin": "bernardel_rosin_orch" }, "scores": { "bowed_technique": 6.680000000000001, "orch_strings": 0.24, "orch_top_wood": 11.05, "orch_back_wood": 6.3950000000000005, "orch_varnish": 6.545, "orch_setup_period": 6.275, "orch_bow": 1.885, "orch_bow_stick": 7.995, "orch_articulation": 1.15, "orch_rosin": 6.445 } }, { "id": "darbuka", "slots": { "percussion_technique": "percussion_open_slap", "darbuka_material": "darbuka_aluminum_sombaty", "darbuka_skin": "darbuka_goat_skin", "darbuka_regional_style": "darbuka_egyptian_sombaty" }, "scores": { "percussion_technique": 0.7149999999999999, "darbuka_material": 0.195, "darbuka_skin": 0.65, "darbuka_regional_style": 6.370000000000001 } }, { "id": "tar_frame_drum", "slots": { "percussion_technique": "percussion_hands_layered", "tar_size": "tar_large", "tar_frame_drum_context": "tar_frame_drum_art", "tar_frame_shell_wood": "tar_frame_walnut", "tar_frame_head": "tar_frame_goat_skin" }, "scores": { "percussion_technique": -0.1, "tar_size": 0.5399999999999999, "tar_frame_drum_context": 1.3, "tar_frame_shell_wood": 1.56, "tar_frame_head": 1.32 } }, { "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": "persian_dastgah_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound": 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"andalusi_nuba_eleven_mode_cycle", "room": "stone_plaster_medina_room", "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" } }