The image of the maqam as a musical form and culture is deficient. To get the possible widest image of the maqam we have to suppose the existence of the Hungarian and also the Bulgarian Maqam. 1000 years ago the main condition for the Hun tribes of constant staying in the Carpatic-Basin was to take over the catholic religion. Together with the new religion Hungarians had to take over Latin as an official language. The new culture brought new music also. After a few generations the ancient music together with the maqam culture vanished. Some fragments has been inherited only by the folk music. In the Hungarian folk music especially the old singers in Transylvania, use a special ornamentation while singing. They sing in a non tempered system. The way how they bend the notes, how one note gets to another one is a typical property of the Eastern music.

In the meantime our history was rewritten by the surrounding powers covering up the tracks of the ancient music.

After many years of enthusiastic research the question is not if the ancient Hungarians played maqam, much rather what the Hungarian Magam was like. The truth is disordered but present.