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double stops fiddle, venice catlin high twist renaissance bass cremonese pre 1750 four layer system double bass, steel castagnari Italian premium folk music straight accordion, steel c6 lap steel. am radio booth. large-diaphragm condenser, tube pre, colored vintage console, vari-mu, Pultec passive program EQ. tape 15ips.", "recipe_chars": 667, "score": 404.365, "config": { "traditions": [ "cowboy_western", "western_music", "classic_oklahoma_country" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "chest_voice", "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "terminal_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice", "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected", "voice_tradition": "jazz_scat_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": 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