Though it uses electricity, an electric piano like a Rhodes or a Whirlitzer is not actually

an electronic instrument.

It's an acoustic one.

The keys hit hammers, the hammers hit a string or a time, and those sounds are amplified

with pickups, kind of like an electric guitar.

Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music.

I'm your host, Kirk Hamilton, and I'm so glad that you joined me to talk about music

played on acoustic pianos, music played on electric pianos, and sometimes music played

on digital samplers that sound like acoustic pianos.

Strong Songs doesn't have any sponsors, Strong Songs doesn't sell any ads, and yet

I dedicate dozens of hours to making each episode of the show.

The only way that that is possible is thanks to the support of listeners like you, so

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links in the show notes.

On this episode, we're continuing our recent run of songwriters who specialize in beautiful

lyric writing, and so we'll be focusing on a song by one of the great lyricists of

the 21st century.

We've got some strings to arrange and some abstract concepts to interpret, so let's put

on our thinking caps and get in do it.

So here's a question for you.

What makes a beautiful lyric?

It's not a question with a real answer, but it's an endlessly fascinating thing to ponder.

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