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pyramid nylon arab school oud, carpathian spruce European maple sycamore maple oil varnish amber tinted violin orchestral, Egyptian sombaty canonical mid east darbuka. dar es salaam zanzibar taarab culture club. large-diaphragm condenser, tube pre, German tube console. 78rpm shellac.", "recipe_chars": 722, "score": 314.335, "config": { "traditions": [ "taarab", "francarabe_judeo_arabic_song", "adeni_song" ], "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": "yoruba_tonal_vocal_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_tahrir_tekye_chain", "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera", "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated", "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony", 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