{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T09:01:52Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a094d8-e37b-7782-9b18-9b8e85dcac7d\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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[Maker description](https://dfiction.com/daxophone-portfolio/)", "The characteristic playing arrangement combines tongue excitation with a separate curved dax that alters the tongue's vibrating behaviour. [Maker explanation](https://dfiction.com/daxophone/)", "Unlike a musical saw, its characteristic vibrating element is wooden and its pitch control uses dax contact rather than primarily bending a metal blade.", "Unlike a conventional kalimba, its characteristic setup uses bow excitation and movable dax contact rather than an array of separately tuned, plucked tines.", "Voice-like sound alone is insufficient identification: the tongue, mounting and control arrangement must be established." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Tongue material", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded wood identification; laminated or other construction if documented; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison of tongue response and appropriate handling without assuming that all woods behave alike." }, { "name": "Tongue geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length, width profile and thickness profile in mm", "why_it_matters": "Documents the vibrating element without assigning one standard size to all daxophones." }, { "name": "Free tongue projection", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm from the clamp boundary to the free tip, with mounting configuration recorded", "why_it_matters": "Makes changes in setup and resulting response interpretable." }, { "name": "Tongue attachment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Clamp design, contact surfaces and replacement procedure", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether a tongue can be securely fitted and exchanged." }, { "name": "Dax contact configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Contact-face profile, surface treatment and orientation as observed", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes available control surfaces and supports repeatable playing trials." }, { "name": "Dax contact position", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm from a stated tongue datum, with contact orientation recorded", "why_it_matters": "Relates a control position to an observed sound without assuming a universal note map." }, { "name": "Excitation method", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Bowed; other demonstrated method; untested", "why_it_matters": "Separates characteristic playing technique from additional capabilities demonstrated on a particular build." }, { "name": "Observed pitch response", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Hz or note and cents with reference tuning; unstable or unpitched where appropriate", "why_it_matters": "Records usable response for a specified tongue, dax position and bowing condition." }, { "name": "Pickup and output interface", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Installed transducer, connector, channel wiring and connected input specifications", "why_it_matters": "Supports a compatible signal path; maker implementations include contact microphones in the soundbody. [Construction example](https://www.huichunyang.com/pages/instruments/wood.html)" }, { "name": "Energy and power requirements", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Manual mechanical excitation; electrical requirements recorded separately for installed electronics", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the energy that excites the tongue from any power required for signal conditioning." }, { "name": "Playing readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed; ready for acoustic trial; ready for amplified trial; needs adjustment; needs repair", "why_it_matters": "Connects inspection findings to the next appropriate action." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify whether an observed instrument has the characteristic daxophone tongue and dax arrangement.", "Select and fit a compatible tongue using documented mounting requirements.", "Set up stable support and verify clearance for bowing and dax movement.", "Map playable responses by controlled trials of bowing and dax contact.", "Connect and diagnose the pickup signal path using the actual interface specifications.", "Identify tongue, clamp or contact-surface defects and determine whether adjustment or repair is needed." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe the daxophone and its inventor from reputable music sources.", "Help a user record, play or build one for their own use." ], "must_not": [ "Attribute the instrument or its recordings to the wrong maker or performer.", "Copy and sell recordings or designs in breach of the rights holders' terms.", "Advise wiring amplification in ways that bypass electrical safety." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing recordings or plans that may be under copyright." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Experimental instruments depend on credit for their inventors and players.", "Amplified play can damage hearing at high volume." ], "affected_parties": [ "Players and builders", "Rights holders", "Listeners" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The person who owns and plays it.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "A thin wooden tongue clamped to a block, bowed at its free end.", "A wooden piece called a dax pressed on the tongue to change pitch, with a contact pickup cable." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Loud amplified sound can damage hearing.", "Woodworking with power tools during building carries injury risk." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "A daxophone is used in experimental music, improvisation and sound design to produce expressive friction sounds that can resemble animal or human voices.", "It is encountered in performance and recording setups where a bowed wooden tongue, a handheld shaping block and contact amplification form the playing system." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The revised Hornbostel-Sachs classification issued by the Musical Instrument Museums Online consortium provides the friction idiophone category applicable to the instrument." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1179017: daxophone", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1179017", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Daxophone", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daxophone", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "tongue-and-mounting", "name": "Tongue and mounting", "description": "Describe the wooden vibrating element and the attachment that establishes its working configuration.", "rationale": "The tongue and its mounting are necessary to identify the instrument and interpret its response.", "layers": [ { "id": "vibrating-tongue", "name": "Vibrating tongue", "description": "Record the material and shape of the element that generates vibration.", "findings": [ { "id": "tongue-identity-and-profile", "name": "Tongue identity and profile", "description": "A useful record identifies the installed tongue and measures its profile rather than treating every tongue as interchangeable.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the tongue's material, maker and profile?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tongue-identity-and-profile-q01" }, { "text": "What are its length, width profile and thickness profile in millimetres?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tongue-identity-and-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "clamp-and-support", "name": "Clamp and support", "description": "Describe the tongue attachment, soundbody and support as an assembled mechanical arrangement.", "findings": [ { "id": "working-mounting-configuration", "name": "Working mounting configuration", "description": "Record the clamp boundary and support arrangement so playability observations can be tied to a reproducible setup.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where does the clamp restrain the tongue, and how much tongue projects beyond that boundary?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "working-mounting-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "How should this build be supported so the mounting remains stable and the tongue has clearance during playing?", "kind": "action", "id": "working-mounting-configuration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bow-and-dax-control", "name": "Bow and dax control", "description": "Describe how excitation and movable contact produce the instrument's controllable response.", "rationale": "Recognition and use require understanding the separate roles of bowing and dax contact.", "layers": [ { "id": "tongue-excitation", "name": "Tongue excitation", "description": "Capture the demonstrated ways of initiating and sustaining tongue vibration.", "findings": [ { "id": "bow-contact-and-response", "name": "Bow contact and response", "description": "Playing trials should relate the excitation location and technique to the resulting response, with bow preparation recorded.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which bow contact locations and stroke directions produce a sustained response on this tongue?", "kind": "action", "id": "bow-contact-and-response-q01" }, { "text": "What bow, hair preparation and rosin were used in the documented trial?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bow-contact-and-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dax-contact", "name": "Dax contact", "description": "Describe the dax surface and how its placement changes the tongue's response.", "findings": [ { "id": "contact-to-sound-map", "name": "Contact-to-sound map", "description": "Treat pitch and timbre control as an observed relationship among dax position, orientation, contact and excitation rather than a fixed keyboard layout.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dax face and orientation are used, and where does it contact the tongue?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contact-to-sound-map-q01" }, { "text": "What repeatable changes in pitch or timbre follow movement of the dax under otherwise comparable playing conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contact-to-sound-map-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sound-response-and-output", "name": "Sound response and output", "description": "Separate the instrument's demonstrated acoustic behaviour from its electrical capture and reproduction.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish playing response from signal-chain effects when evaluating or troubleshooting a daxophone.", "layers": [ { "id": "playable-response", "name": "Playable response", "description": "Document repeatable sounds for a stated tongue and playing configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "configuration-specific-range", "name": "Configuration-specific range", "description": "Record demonstrated pitch regions, transitions and unpitched responses without assigning an unsupported universal range.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sustained pitches or pitch regions are reproducible, and under what tongue, mounting and playing conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configuration-specific-range-q01" }, { "text": "Which apparent range limits arise from the setup, performer or measurement method rather than an established instrument limit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "configuration-specific-range-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pickup-signal-path", "name": "Pickup signal path", "description": "Identify how vibration reaches an electrical output and the requirements of the receiving input.", "findings": [ { "id": "transducer-and-input-compatibility", "name": "Transducer and input compatibility", "description": "Record the installed pickup arrangement and actual connection requirements instead of assuming all builds share wiring or electronics.", "questions": [ { "text": "What transducers, connector wiring and onboard electronics are documented for this build?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transducer-and-input-compatibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which input, cable and power arrangement is compatible with those components?", "kind": "action", "id": "transducer-and-input-compatibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "playability-and-care", "name": "Playability and care", "description": "Assess defects and maintenance needs at the tongue, clamp, dax and pickup interfaces.", "rationale": "Readiness depends on the integrity of thin wooden parts and the quality of mechanical and electrical contacts.", "layers": [ { "id": "mechanical-readiness", "name": "Mechanical readiness", "description": "Inspect the parts that carry bowing forces and dax contact before playing.", "findings": [ { "id": "tongue-and-contact-condition", "name": "Tongue and contact condition", "description": "Record cracks, splinters, deformation, attachment movement and damaged contact surfaces as observations requiring evaluation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are cracks, splinters, deformation or movement visible at the tongue and its clamped region?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tongue-and-contact-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed defects require stopping a playing trial, refitting the tongue or seeking repair according to the maker's guidance?", "kind": "action", "id": "tongue-and-contact-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-troubleshooting", "name": "Response troubleshooting", "description": "Use controlled comparisons to locate problems in excitation, mounting or electrical capture.", "findings": [ { "id": "weak-or-unwanted-sound", "name": "Weak or unwanted sound", "description": "A weak output, rattle or squeal needs a recorded diagnostic comparison before it is attributed to a defective tongue or pickup.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the symptom occur acoustically, only through amplification, or only at particular bow and dax positions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "weak-or-unwanted-sound-q01" }, { "text": "Which controlled check of bow preparation, mounting, cable or input can isolate the symptom without altering the tongue?", "kind": "action", "id": "weak-or-unwanted-sound-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This description is recalled knowledge, not source-verified research.", "Construction, tongue geometry and playing response vary between makers; no standard dimensions or pitch range are asserted.", "No established subtype taxonomy or instrument-specific technical standard is confidently recalled." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of daxophone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Experimental and improvised music.", "Producing voice-like, animal-like and other unusual timbres.", "Changing wooden tongues to obtain different tonal characteristics." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of daxophone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Thin wooden tongues can crack or split under excessive force.", "Loose clamping can cause unwanted rattling and unstable response.", "Amplification can produce acoustic feedback." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of daxophone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Musical saw", "difference": "A musical saw uses a flexible steel blade whose curvature controls its sounding modes; a daxophone uses a clamped wooden tongue contacted by a separate dax." }, { "name": "Bowed string instrument", "difference": "A bowed string instrument excites a tensioned string; a daxophone excites a wooden tongue." }, { "name": "Waterphone", "difference": "A waterphone uses metal rods attached to a resonator containing water; a daxophone uses a clamped wooden tongue and a pitch-controlling block." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of daxophone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover the daxophone concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "Which departures from the characteristic wooden tongue, separate dax and contact-pickup arrangement remain daxophones rather than neighbouring experimental instruments?", "What measured dimensions and playable ranges are supported across multiple documented builds, and which remain specific to one tongue or performer?", "Which maker instructions establish acceptable clamp force, cleaning methods, storage conditions and criteria for retiring a damaged tongue?", "Are there daxophone-specific standards or certification requirements, or only requirements applying to particular electrical components and intended markets?" ], 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