The voice box is another name for the larynx, the part of your body that holds the vocal folds and thus produces your voice.

That's not to be confused with the talk box, which is an electric guitar effect that merges with your voice and makes you sound like Peter Frampton.

Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music. I'm your host, Kirk Hamilton, and I'm so glad that you've joined me to answer listener

questions about voice boxes, questions about talk boxes, and who knows what other kinds of boxes.

Stomp boxes, mystery boxes, boxing day in Canada.

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It's the only way I get paid for all of this.

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On this episode, we are cracking open the strong songs mailbag for the first time in season

seven, and we've got some great questions about streaming background music, thrash metal

guitar solos, relearning to sing, and a bunch of odd meter counting.

So let's pull out our stationary, lick some stamps, and get to work.

Yeah. Lick some stamps and get to work. Strong Songs Season 7 has reached its halfway point, if you can believe it,

which means it's time for our first mailbag of the season.

First, though, I wanted to share a pretty cool announcement about a live show that I'm going to be putting on this summer.

Many of you probably know that in addition to Strong songs, I co-host a video game podcast called Triple Click, along with Maddie Myers and

Jason Schreier. This summer, we're going to be doing a live show in my hometown of Portland, Oregon.

And while, yes, we will be on stage talking about video games and not music, I am mentioning

it to you all because we'll also be playing some music. We'll be singing songs and generally

putting on a whole show. I'm writing some music specifically for the show. I'm very excited

about it. And, you know, we'll have access to all of my instruments and everything because we're

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