Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-07
FretValet, a Tiny Retro Fretboard Workbench
An interactive fretboard explorer for mapping scales, chords, and intervals across guitar, dulcimer, mandolin, ukulele, banjo, and other fretted or bowed instruments.
Why it surfacedFretValet turns a narrow music-theory task into a playful instrument: choose a shape and root, switch tunings or instruments, flip the board for left-handed use, go fretless, and tap notes to hear them. The dulcimer half-fret setting is the kind of oddly specific detail that makes this feel built for actual players rather than assembled as a generic diagram.
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A File Musicians Can Argue With
August 7’s newborn domains include editable orchestral scores with up to 33 staves, 15 years of Valencia council interventions, a dementia-friendly frame with one optional button, and a memorial golf tournament whose winner wears the Meatball Jacket.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-07 Domain Arrivals issue.