Play Ukulele Online — Free Virtual Ukulele
Strum a sunny ukulele in your browser with a bright nylon pluck, keyboard and MIDI — no download.
Bottom row plays C4–B4, top row C5–A5. Keys Z–M and Q–Y.
How to Play in Four Steps
- Play the island fretboard — bottom row C4–B4, top row C5–A5 — with glissando slides.
- Strum fast runs: the short pluck decay keeps quick notes articulate.
- Shift octaves or connect a MIDI keyboard for melodies across the range.
- Record your take straight from the master bus.
A Short History of the Ukulele
The ukulele arrived in Hawaii in 1879 with Portuguese immigrants, whose small machete guitar enchanted the islands. King Kalakaua embraced it, Hawaiian craftsmen refined it, and by the early 1900s it was a mainland American craze.
From Tiny Tim to Israel Kamakawiwoʻole and Jake Shimabukuro, its sunny strum is loved most in Hawaii and now everywhere pop, folk and YouTube covers live. Strum along on the interactive ukulele in your browser above — free, no download.
Acoustically, a plucked nylon string rings over a small wooden body — reproduced here with a bright triangle pluck and fast articulate decay.
Ukulele Quiz
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Frequently Asked Questions
Play the on-screen keys, use Z–M for the lower octave and Q–Y for the upper stretch, or connect a MIDI keyboard. Every note is a bright nylon-style pluck.
C4 to A5 — the soprano ukulele song range — with an octave shift reaching further both ways.
Yes. Mark any notes on the fretboard, then tap Together to strum them as one — build and practice clean major and minor chord transitions across the C4–A5 range.
Yes. The fretboard and strings track each finger separately, so you can strum chords and fingerpick with multi-touch on mobile and tablet screens.
It plays the soprano song range C4–A5 with every note tuned to concert pitch — use it as a pitch reference when tuning your real GCEA soprano uke.
No. Everything runs in the browser with the Web Audio API — no samples, no plugins, no account.