Maqam: Eastern Tuner

Maqam is a precision tuner and metronome for 24 Eastern stringed instruments and guitar, built for serious musicians who play makam music.

INSTRUMENTS COVERED
• Bağlama family: long-neck, short-neck (kısa sap), meydan sazı, divan sazı, çöğür, bozuk, tambura, bağlama curası, tambura curası
• Ottoman classical: ud (Turkish + Arabic), kanun (24 perde groups), mızraplı tanbur, yaylı tanbur, klasik kemençe, Cüneyd Orhon kemençesi, lavta
• Folk: cümbüş, Karadeniz kemençesi
• Greek: bouzouki (trichordo + tetrachordo), lyra (Cretan + Pontian), baglamas
• Levantine: buzuq (modern + Matar Muhammad)
• Caucasus: Azerbaijani tar (11 strings + sympathetic)
• Guitar: 6-string, 7-string, 8-string, 12-string

AUTO STRING DETECTION
Don't know which string you just plucked? Just play. Maqam listens to the incoming pitch and locks onto the closest tuning string within ±250 cents, then guides you to the exact target. Tap any string manually to override.

ANALOG GAUGE
A vintage half-circle needle gauge shows pitch deviation in cents. Green sweet-spot at ±15¢, red caution zones beyond. Bold, modern, no-nonsense.

90+ TUNING SYSTEMS
• Bağlama: Bozuk Düzen, Bağlama Düzeni (Aşıklama), Misket, Müstezat, Hüseyni, Hüzzam, Sürmeli, Eviç, Abdal, Fidayda, Kayseri, Acemaşiran, Sabahi, Segâh, Kemençe, Zirgüle, Do Müstezat, and more
• Ud: Klasik (Tanburi Cemil), Bam La, Bam Mi
• Kanun: Çargâh Natural with all 24 AEU perde positions
• Guitar: Standard, Eb, D, Drop D, Drop C, Double Drop D, DADGAD, Open G/D/E/A/C, Open D minor, Nashville, All Fourths, New Standard Tuning, lute/vihuela, baritone; 7-string B, Drop A, Russian, Brazilian; 8-string F#, Drop E; 12-string with every octave pair listed

TSM TRANSPOSITIONS
Concert pitch and TRT Türk Halk Müziği standards built in. Switch between La 220, Si bemol 233, Do 262 (TRT THM), and Re 294 reference frequencies on the fly.

METRONOME
Built-in metronome with time signatures 2/4 through 10/4, tap tempo, visual beat dots.

LANGUAGES
English, Türkçe, العربية, Ελληνικά, فارسی, Español, Italiano — switch any time in Settings.

PRIVACY-FIRST
Microphone audio never leaves your device. No analytics. No tracking. No account. No internet required.

MAQAM PRO ($9.99 one-time)
Unlock all 90+ tunings, 12 Bolahenk ahenk presets (Mansur, Kız, Süpürde, Bolahenk, etc.), AEU 24-perde notation display, 53-TET Holdrian koma precision, and recording. One purchase, lifetime access.

Built with love for the Eastern music community.
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