page_title: Chord Master
hierarchical_section_title: Chord Master
caption_attribution_description: 1926 US advertisement for ukulele with easy chord system; "Be the Life of the Party".
context_page_description: Chord Master is the brand-name for a type of automated chording device produced for the ukulele. Competing products were sold under labels such as Noteless Player by Ferry & Co.. These devices allowed a ukulele player to easily play chords simply by choosing the mechanical button on the device labeled for the desired chord, and depressing it, causing mechanical levers to fret each string at the proper place to compose a chord.
  The popular Chordmaster was produced by luthier Mario Maccaferri and his affiliated French American Reeds Manufacturing company; both his instruments and chord device are desired collectors' items.
  The term Chordmaster was also used for a guitar chord reference application for the iPhone OS in 2009. The application ranked #1 on the Apple iTunes music application store.
context_section_description: Chord Master (also rendered Visual Chord Master, chordmaster) is the brand-name for a type of automated chording device produced for the ukulele. Competing products were sold under labels such as Noteless Player by Ferry & Co.. These devices allowed a ukulele player to easily play chords simply by choosing the mechanical button on the device labeled for the desired chord, and depressing it, causing mechanical levers to fret each string at the proper place to compose a chord.
  The popular Chordmaster was produced by luthier Mario Maccaferri (known for designing plastic ukuleles) and his affiliated French American Reeds Manufacturing company; both his instruments and chord device are desired collectors' items.
  The term Chordmaster was also used for a guitar chord reference application for the iPhone OS in 2009. The application ranked #1 on the Apple iTunes music application store.
caption: A 1926 advertisement for the "Noteless Player"
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