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It grew from the fiddle-and-guitar bands of the late nineteenth century, and from the mid-twentieth century bands added button accordion and saxophones, playing polkas, two-steps, chotes (schottisches) and mazurkas, later also cumbias, usually without vocals; Canyon Records has issued a long series of chicken-scratch albums.", "recipe": "classic North American mid-1950s waila, functional Song, tejano border branch. accordion, saxophone, bajo sexto, mid rich alder electric bass, low fundamental tuning all purpose maple drum kit. live tracking. passive ribbon, tube pre, German tube console, vari-mu, Pultec passive program EQ. tape 15ips.", "recipe_chars": 303, "score": 5.649, "config": { "traditions": [ "waila_chicken_scratch" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "accordion", "slots": { "free_reed_technique": "free_reed_bellows_articulated", "accordion_reed_material": "steel_reeds", "musette_offset": "dry_tuning", "reed_config": "lmm", "bellows": "cardboard_leather", "voicing_chamber": "cassotto", "accordion_maker_school": "accordion_maker_unspecified" }, "scores": { "free_reed_technique": -0.07, "accordion_reed_material": 0.0735, "musette_offset": 0, "reed_config": 0, "bellows": 0, "voicing_chamber": 0, "accordion_maker_school": 0 } }, { "id": "saxophone", "slots": { "wind_articulation": "wind_continuous_legato", "sax_size": "alto_sax", "sax_reed": "medium_reed", "sax_body_alloy": "yellow_brass_sax", "sax_mouthpiece": "hard_rubber_mp", "sax_technique": "sax_continuous_legato", "sax_maker_school": "sax_selmer_balanced_action" }, "scores": { "wind_articulation": -0.07, "sax_size": 0.325, "sax_reed": 0.063, "sax_body_alloy": -1.4425000000000001, "sax_mouthpiece": 0, "sax_technique": -0.035, "sax_maker_school": -0.035 } }, { "id": "bajo_sexto", "slots": { "plucked_traditional_technique": "plucked_folk_strummed", "bajo_courses": "twelve_string_bajo", "bajo_top": "spruce_bj", "bajo_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified", "bajo_back_wood": "bajo_mahogany_back" }, "scores": 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