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french horn, Japanese factory birch laminated maple laminated Asian spruce hokkaido source grand piano, mallets timpani, pre muffled edge muffled brushes-and-sticks drum kit, marshall plexi amp British rock amp ernie ball slinky electric bass, rubber mallets vibraphone. converted armenian church 1949-1981 major-flagship columbia 30th street studio nyc. decca tree, German V72 tube pre, Emi redd.51. tape 15ips.", "recipe_chars": 776, "score": 365.18, "config": { "traditions": [ "orchestral_pop", "german_romanticism", "broadway" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "chest_voice", "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "slow_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice", "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected", "voice_tradition": "modern_pop_vocal_training", "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed", "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera", 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