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  "name": "Mvet oyeng (Fang-Beti epic recitation)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Epic recitation of the Fang, Beti and Bulu of southern Cameroon, northern Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, in which the bard (mbom-mvet) sings and declaims the cycles of the immortal people of Engong while playing the mvet stick-zither, with a chorus and audience answering; a performance can last through the night. Herbert Pepper recorded the bard Zwè Nguéma in Gabon in 1960.",
  "recipe": "classic early-1960s mvet oyeng, ballad Poetry. fang. epic narration mvet. field recording. small-diaphragm pencil condenser, portable field-recorder pre. tape 15ips.",
  "recipe_chars": 165,
  "score": 18.499,
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    "archetype": "arch_nagra_ethnographic_field",
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      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "clean",
      "comp": null,
      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "tape_15ips"
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    "tuning": "aural_relative",
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    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
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      "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified",
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      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_quality_source_unspecified",
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      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_call_response_leader_group",
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      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_source_unspecified",
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      "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified",
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    "chain_mic": "condenser_sdc",
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    "chain_console": "clean"
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}