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piano, steel sitka spruce bigleaf maple western maple oil varnish violin orchestral, synthetic norway spruce European alpine European maple sycamore maple cello, brass legato french horn, grenadilla African blackwood canonical modern conservatoire yamaha modern Japanese legato oboe, concert harp, legato celesta, choir cathedral satb, madake bamboo phyllostachys canonical Japanese root section continuous-airflow legato shakuhachi, analog poly synth. live tracking. tube condenser, 500-series boutique pre, brick-wall limiter, dynamic EQ. 24-bit digital plate reverb digital delay pitch shifter.", "recipe_chars": 905, "score": 325.83, "config": { "traditions": [ "japanese_soundtrack", "german_romanticism", "late_romantic_era" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "grand_piano", "slots": { "keyboard_technique": "keyboard_classical_legato", "grand_piano_size": "grand_9_foot", "grand_piano_brand": "steinway_d", "piano_hammer": "renner_standard_hammer", "piano_rim": "european_laminated_rim_beech_maple", "piano_soundboard": "sitka_spruce_diaphragmatic", "piano_pinblock": "standard_multi_laminate_pinblock", "piano_plate": "gray_iron_full_perimeter_plate", "piano_pitch_standard": "a_442_european" }, "scores": { "keyboard_technique": 5, "grand_piano_size": 4.095, "grand_piano_brand": 3.1849999999999996, "piano_hammer": 13.845, "piano_rim": 12.195, "piano_soundboard": 10.5, "piano_pinblock": 10.65, "piano_plate": 11.59, "piano_pitch_standard": 15.41 } }, { "id": "violin_orchestral", "slots": { "bowed_technique": "bowed_pizzicato", "orch_strings": "steel_orch", "orch_top_wood": "sitka_spruce_violin_top", "orch_back_wood": "bigleaf_western_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": "arco_orch", "orch_rosin": "magic_rosin_orch" }, "scores": { "bowed_technique": 8.625, "orch_strings": 1.24, "orch_top_wood": 7.515000000000001, "orch_back_wood": 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