Fretless neck reference · 6 doubled courses

Cümbüş neck maps

Every tuning I could find attested, with the notes laid out along the string. Spacing is logarithmic, the way it actually falls on a fretless neck — the positions crowd together as you climb.

Oud — bam+fourths
All-fourths
Other conversions
Listen
Transport
80 BPM
E2bam
A25. tel
B24. tel
E33. tel
A32. tel
D41. tel

Tap any note to hear it. Position numbers count semitones from the open string; there are no frets, so they mark where a semitone lands, not a boundary.

Karar — the resting note
In the makam
Koma position — between the keys
Chromatic, outside the makam

Bam Mi

Uncertainturkish

~E2 · ~A2 · ~B2 · ~E3 · ~A3 · ~D4

The one most often given online as the Turkish cumbus tuning. Intervals run 4th, 2nd, 4th, 4th, 4th. The low E is a drone course more than a melody course. I could not match it exactly to a primary source, but it is coherent and plenty of players use it.

Source: docs/02-tunings/catalog.md

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Makam

Pick a makam to light up the notes that belong to it. Everything else dims back into the neck.

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