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A patron of the arts, he incorporated it into performances at royal gatherings. One of the most important factors in establishing the ukulele in Hawaiian music and culture was the ardent support and promotion of the instrument by King Kalākaua. Two weeks after they disembarked from the SS Ravenscrag in late August 1879, the Hawaiian Gazette reported that 'Madeira Islanders recently arrived here, have been delighting the people with nightly street concerts.' Three immigrants in particular, Madeiran cabinet makers Manuel Nunes, José do Espírito Santo, and Augusto Dias, are generally credited as the first ukulele makers. Ukuleles commonly come in four sizes: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone.ĭeveloped in the 1880s, the ukulele is based on several small, guitar-like instruments of Portuguese origin, the machete, cavaquinho, timple, and rajão, introduced to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese immigrants from Madeira, the Azores and Cape Verde. The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and construction.

However, for ukulele purposes, it wouldn’t hurt chord dictionary creators to include such a beautiful set as the add9 chords, despite being less common.The ukulele ( / ˌ juː k ə ˈ l eɪ l i/ YOO-kə- LAY-lee from Hawaiian: ʻukulele, approximately OO-koo- LEH-leh), also called a uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. Is it common enough to include in a chord dictionary? No, I think not. Would you ever hear that three-note combination in music? Perhaps. For instance, the first set of notes could be described as Amaj7add9no3no5, which is pretty useless. Our chord naming system is based on major and minor third intervals, so naming some of these ‘chords’ with that system would become somewhat of a chore. To get more esoteric and useless, all of the following 3 and 4 note combinations (pasted below) are technically chords (though many of them might be described as discordant).

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There’s a free Ukulele Magazine article on the ‘Don’t Lift a Finger’ set of chords by master ukulele player and teacher James Hill that makes a point of explaining Bbadd9 in relation to F and C. But, add9 chords sound gorgeous on ukulele because of the ukulele’s reentrant tuning.

Why aren’t they as common? My theory is that it is because they don’t usually sound very good on guitar, so less songwriters use these chords (guitar being one of the predominant songwriting tools). They are generally only going to include common chords and add9 chords aren’t as common. Who decides which ones are useful? Whoever created the chord library. That means there are 715 possible chords to play on the ukulele (not counting inversions). Why incomplete? Because there are so many possible chords … any three or more separate notes can be combined to make up a chord, with 12 separate notes in standard Western music, that makes for 220 possible 3-note chords and 495 possible 4-note chords (ukulele can’t do 5-note chords with only 4 strings, but keyboard instruments can easily). Student: “So why doesn’t 3213 show up when I search for the chord (either in my app or Uke Buddy)? Strange….” LONG ANSWERīecause most chord libraries are not complete. Me: “Yeah, 3213 is a Bbadd9 or A#add9 … a BbMadd9 or A#Madd9 is just a lengthier way of saying the same thing.”‘ When I entered the notes I had been playing at Uke Buddy, it identified the chord as A#Madd9. Student: “When I looked up the Bbadd9 chord, I didn’t see any variant that matched what I’d been playing. I thought our recent thread might be useful to some other players that were wondering, “Why isn’t this chord in my chord dictionary!?” I have a student that isn’t afraid to ask me questions, followed up with questions, sometimes followed up with questions.

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