Observed arrival · 2026-10-07
MaqamStrings maps maqams onto the fretboard
A free set of interactive fretboard and chord resources for guitar, bouzouki, baglama, and bass, focused on maqams and quarter tones.
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- Players learning maqams on guitar, bouzouki, baglama, or bass
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- The legend marks ordinary flats blue and quarter-tone half-flats yellow, with quarter tones placed inside the fret space above.
Field notes
The quarter-tone guide explains that ordinary flats indicate semitones, while a half-flat marks a quarter tone; it says these notes are played with a bent string or on a fretless guitar. Fretboard views can be narrowed to windows of two through five frets. The page also lists Hebrew, English, Arabic, Turkish, and Greek, and attributes instrument sounds to named open-source sample collections.
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