First, the ancient fretting:
Next, with the adjusted fret placements specified by Zalzal:
Next, the adjusted frets placements specified by Mahmoud and Abdulqadir:
Lastly, graphs showing all frettings together, for comparison:

Updated: 2000.1.24 - thanks to Paul Erlich for pointing out errors.

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