Add an instrument type for standard groupings [STYLE-936]

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@reosarevok I just read [Notes from #MetaBrainz meeting 2018-03-12] “MBS-1159: Add support for 3-point relationships” and https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4137591/

First, I would like to thank you for listening to my objections and for bringing [MBS-1159] up!

Knowing the obstacles by now, let me clarify that I’m not strictly against implementing [STYLE-936]. As pointed out, it still improves the things, given the fact that people are already doing things like strings[string quartet]. Or saxophone[saxophone quartet] (I just remembered our discussion in 2016 when I edited this release.)

But two things would be great:

  • Someone knowing the internals of the mb database should check if the desired functionality could be implemented as drafted in my last post. (On the chat protocol I saw that also CatCat realized that the existing “instrument”-relationship is already a 3-point one!)

  • Keep the tension on MBS-1159! My impression that everybody wants it.

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