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  "id": "guyanese_masquerade_band",
  "name": "Masquerade (Guyanese Christmas fife-and-drum bands)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Masquerade bands are the Christmas street bands of Georgetown and other Guyanese towns and villages, in which a flute or fife leads over the kettle drum, a snare-type side drum, and the big bass drum, while dancers called flouncers spin and costumed characters, among them the stilt-walking Mother Sally, perform for coins. Rooted in the Christmas festivities of the enslaved, it is documented by Vibert C. Cambridge in 'Musical Life in Guyana'.",
  "recipe": "classic modern masquerade, carnival Processional, Caribbean branch. fife, snare bass drum. field recording. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 170,
  "score": 0.518,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "guyanese_masquerade_band"
    ],
    "instruments": [
      {
        "id": "fife",
        "slots": {
          "fife_tradition": "fife_tradition_anglo_american",
          "fife_build": "fife_build_grenadilla",
          "fife_pitch": "fife_pitch_bflat",
          "fife_role": "fife_role_corps_unison"
        },
        "scores": {
          "fife_tradition": 0.254,
          "fife_build": -0.07,
          "fife_pitch": 0.254,
          "fife_role": -0.07
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "snare_drum",
        "slots": {
          "standalone_snare_construction": "standalone_snare_yamaha_sss1455"
        },
        "scores": {
          "standalone_snare_construction": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "bass_drum",
        "slots": {
          "bass_drum_size": "bass_drum_24_26_big",
          "bass_drum_beater": "bass_drum_felt_pedal"
        },
        "scores": {
          "bass_drum_size": 0,
          "bass_drum_beater": 0.3
        }
      }
    ],
    "pinned": {
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        "fife_tradition",
        "fife_build",
        "fife_pitch",
        "fife_role"
      ],
      "snare_drum": [
        "standalone_snare_construction"
      ],
      "bass_drum": [
        "bass_drum_size",
        "bass_drum_beater"
      ]
    },
    "room": "field_recording",
    "archetype": "arch_ethnographic_field_digital",
    "inline_chain": {
      "mic": "mic_pair_ortf",
      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "clean",
      "comp": "comp_none",
      "eq": "eq_none",
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "digital_high"
    },
    "tuning": "aural_relative",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "aural_relative",
    "room": "field_recording",
    "parts": {
      "fife_tradition": "fife_tradition_anglo_american",
      "fife_build": "fife_build_grenadilla",
      "fife_pitch": "fife_pitch_bflat",
      "fife_role": "fife_role_corps_unison",
      "standalone_snare_construction": "standalone_snare_yamaha_sss1455",
      "bass_drum_size": "bass_drum_24_26_big",
      "bass_drum_beater": "bass_drum_felt_pedal"
    },
    "pin_parts": true,
    "chain_mic": "mic_pair_ortf",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_comp": "comp_none",
    "chain_eq": "eq_none",
    "chain_medium": "digital_high",
    "chain_console": "clean"
  }
}