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Interactive fretboards for guitar, bouzouki, bağlama and bass, with quarter tones

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Electric bağlama (saz): maqamat, tunings (düzen) and chords

The bağlama (saz) is tuned by düzen. The site includes 19 common tunings, lets you shift the tuning by semitones, and shows a 23-fret fretboard in the Turkish system, with unequal frets, so the quarter tones are marked on the frets themselves.

RootQuarter tone (half-flat ↓)Other notes (including regular flats and sharps)

Note: a regular flat (like E♭) is a semitone, so it is blue. Only a half-flat (↓, e.g. E↓ or B↓) is a quarter tone, shown in yellow. Each quarter tone is drawn inside the fret box above it, and if that box also holds a regular note, both are shown side by side. Play it by bending the string or on a fretless guitar.

What is on this page

All maqamat and scales are available on the selected instrument in the fretboard above.

Instrument sounds are based on open-source recorded samples (Karoryfer Samples: Black And Green Guitars and Black And Blue Basses; University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios; tonejs-instruments).