{
  "id": "piedmont_fingerpicking",
  "name": "Piedmont fingerpicking blues",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Eastern-seaboard fingerpicked country blues tradition that flourished in the Piedmont region (Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia) from the early 20th century — distinguished from the Mississippi Delta blues tradition (which is harder-edged and rhythmically heavier) by its lighter ragtime-derived right-hand fingerpicking, brighter harmonic vocabulary, and parlor-music influence; codified through Blind Boy Fuller (the Piedmont voice, recorded 1935-40), Blind Blake, the Reverend Gary Davis, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Etta Baker, Elizabeth Cotten (Freight Train, Shake Sugaree)",
  "recipe": "classic Midwestern American mid-1930s piedmont fingerpicking blues, ballad Poetry, piedmont narrative branch, blues acoustic functional song piedmont blues st. louis blues. thick, worn fold, wide pitch sway, interlocked note trading. open g tuning slide acoustic guitar, pearwood marine band tradition brass traditional hohner marine band 1896 canonical blues trossingen harmonica, narrative fingerpicked mountain dulcimer. us dustbowl outdoor woody guthrie. large-diaphragm condenser, tube pre, German tube console. 78rpm shellac.",
  "recipe_chars": 531,
  "score": 442.373,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "piedmont_fingerpicking",
      "piedmont_blues",
      "st_louis_blues"
    ],
    "instruments": [
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        "id": "voice",
        "slots": {
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          "voice_quality": "worn_fold_voice",
          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
          "voice_vibrato": "oscillating_vibrato",
          "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice",
          "voice_microtone": "bend_inflected",
          "voice_tradition": "gospel_pentecostal_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": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_andean_huayno",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_drone_overtone_harmonic_series",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_melodyne_microtuned",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_unison_double_take"
        },
        "scores": {
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          "voice_quality": 26.799999999999994,
          "voice_vocal_tract": 0,
          "voice_effort": 0,
          "voice_vibrato": 33.625,
          "voice_articulation": 15.729999999999997,
          "voice_microtone": 31.123,
          "voice_tradition": 15.7625,
          "voice_mechanism_compound": 4.095000000000001,
          "voice_estill_quality": 8.270625,
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          "voice_ensemble_config": 16.574999999999996,
          "voice_ornament_system": 2.465,
          "voice_pitch_organization": 2.6265000000000005,
          "voice_processing_chain": 4.355,
          "voice_multitrack_stack": 2.475
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "acoustic_guitar_om",
        "slots": {
          "string_tuning": "open_g",
          "top_wood": "mahogany_top_om",
          "back_sides": "walnut_bs_om",
          "string_acoustic": "eighty_twenty_om",
          "acoustic_om_technique": "om_bottleneck_slide"
        },
        "scores": {
          "string_tuning": 17.749999999999996,
          "top_wood": 0.65,
          "back_sides": 0.6749999999999999,
          "string_acoustic": 1.2349999999999999,
          "acoustic_om_technique": 40.2215
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "harmonica",
        "slots": {
          "harmonica_type": "chromatic_harm",
          "harmonica_comb": "pearwood_comb",
          "harmonica_reed": "brass_harm",
          "harmonica_technique": "harm_blues_cross",
          "harmonica_maker_school": "harmonica_hohner_marine_band",
          "harmonica_tuning": "harmonica_richter_canonical"
        },
        "scores": {
          "harmonica_type": 0.45499999999999996,
          "harmonica_comb": 33.456,
          "harmonica_reed": 29.465,
          "harmonica_technique": 36.045,
          "harmonica_maker_school": 32.4675,
          "harmonica_tuning": 15.145
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "mountain_dulcimer",
        "slots": {
          "acoustic_technique": "acoustic_fingerpicked",
          "dulcimer_strings": "dulcimer_4",
          "dulcimer_tuning": "ionian_tuning",
          "dulcimer_body_wood": "dulcimer_walnut_canonical",
          "dulcimer_string_material": "dulcimer_phosphor_bronze"
        },
        "scores": {
          "acoustic_technique": 14.208875,
          "dulcimer_strings": 1.0125,
          "dulcimer_tuning": 1.011875,
          "dulcimer_body_wood": 0.6,
          "dulcimer_string_material": 0.045
        }
      }
    ],
    "room": "us_dustbowl_outdoor_woody_guthrie",
    "archetype": "arch_electrical_disc_cut",
    "inline_chain": {
      "mic": "condenser_sdc",
      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "console_german_tube_50s",
      "comp": null,
      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "shellac_78"
    },
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "room": "us_dustbowl_outdoor_woody_guthrie",
    "parts": {
      "voice_register": "chest_voice",
      "voice_quality": "blues_shouter_voice",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_neumatic_singing",
      "voice_tradition": "modern_pop_vocal_training",
      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_equal_tempered_12",
      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead",
      "voice_microtone": "blue_notes",
      "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_none",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_belt",
      "voice_vibrato": "straight_tone",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_single_source",
      "harmonica_technique": "harm_blues_cross",
      "harmonica_type": "diatonic_blues",
      "top_wood": "sitka_om",
      "back_sides": "mahogany_bs_om",
      "string_acoustic": "phosphor_om",
      "acoustic_om_technique": "om_bottleneck_slide"
    },
    "chain_mic": "condenser_sdc",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_medium": "shellac_78",
    "chain_console": "console_german_tube_50s"
  }
}