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  "id": "clawhammer_banjo",
  "name": "Clawhammer banjo",
  "family": "vernacular",
  "lineage": "Downstroking five-string banjo technique carried from West African plucked-lute practice into the antebellum American South and through blackface minstrelsy's stroke style into Appalachian home and dance music, documented from the 1920s Round Peak players onward — the striking nail of the index or middle finger brushes down onto the melody string while the thumb catches the fifth-string drone on the off-beat, producing a bum-ditty ostinato in open gDGCD, gCGCD or gDGBD tunings on a fretless or open-back gut- or nylon-strung banjo at dance tempo with almost no dynamic variation.",
  "recipe": "classic mid-1920s clawhammer banjo, drone Modal, appalachian branch, bluegrass improv on frame, pre commercial country neo-traditional bluegrass reactionary bluegrass. thick, breath veiled tone, wide pitch sway, interlocked note trading. bronze block rim maple boutique bluegrass bluegrass canon banjo 5 string, foot tap. wooden barn. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 397,
  "score": 240.105,
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      "clawhammer_banjo",
      "neo_traditional_bluegrass",
      "reactionary_bluegrass"
    ],
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        "id": "banjo_5_string",
        "slots": {
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          "tone_ring": "flathead",
          "banjo_head": "fiberskyn",
          "banjo_pot": "pot_11",
          "banjo_play": "three_finger",
          "banjo_rim_wood": "banjo_block_rim_maple",
          "banjo_neck_wood": "banjo_maple_neck",
          "banjo_strings": "banjo_medium_bluegrass",
          "banjo_bridge": "banjo_maple_ebony_bridge",
          "banjo_setup_period": "banjo_scruggs_bluegrass_setup"
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          "banjo_pot": 0.195,
          "banjo_play": 4.68,
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          "banjo_neck_wood": 11.7,
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          "banjo_bridge": 11.894999999999998,
          "banjo_setup_period": 25.934999999999995
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      },
      {
        "id": "voice",
        "slots": {
          "voice_register": "chest_voice",
          "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice",
          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
          "voice_vibrato": "oscillating_vibrato",
          "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice",
          "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected",
          "voice_tradition": "yoruba_tonal_vocal_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_none",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_pythagorean",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_multiband_aggressive_broadcast",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead"
        },
        "scores": {
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      },
      {
        "id": "foot_tap",
        "slots": {
          "tap_striker": "tap_hard_shoe_leather",
          "tap_surface": "tap_sprung_wood_floor"
        },
        "scores": {
          "tap_striker": 0.8049999999999999,
          "tap_surface": 0
        }
      }
    ],
    "room": "wooden_barn",
    "archetype": "arch_ethnographic_field_digital",
    "inline_chain": {
      "mic": "condenser_sdc",
      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "clean",
      "comp": null,
      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "digital_std"
    },
    "tuning": "american_primitive_open_drone",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "american_primitive_open_drone",
    "room": "wooden_barn",
    "chain_mic": "condenser_sdc",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_medium": "digital_std",
    "chain_console": "clean"
  }
}