Hughes and Kettner is not a name well-known for software. Instead, the label suggests custom tube bass and guitar amps with huge headroom, great tone, and dazzling electric-blue-and-lucite visual design. Notwithstanding, the company's motto "The technology of tone" has stretched into the software realm with today's announcement of the Hughes & Kettner Chord Finder software for Windows mobile phone and PC platforms.

The Finder is pretty handy and brings a unique twist to the well-populated software development niche of chord-aid software. The app provides audition/playback of chords in clean or overdriven amp tones at the push of a virtual button. That's pretty cool.

The company adds:

You need a Java-enabled (version MIDP2) mobile phone to run Chord Finder. Visit the website of your mobile's manufacturer or heise.de. to find out if your phone meets this requirement. Hughes & Kettner shall not be liable for any damages arising from the installation or use of Chord Finder. Users of the software are responsible for the security of their data.

The application runs on Windows PCs, and on mobile phones running the Windows platform, so consider the Chord Finder for the next time your chart tells you Ebm7b5/B''.