The piano is actually a percussion instrument if you think about it.

Wind instruments of course are powered by wind.

Percussion instruments are powered by one thing,

hitting another thing, and when you play a piano,

you press the key, but what's actually happening is, under the hood,

a hammer is striking a string to produce the

desired tone.

Which means that every piano player who's ever told a drummer joke, while they're just

making fun of themselves. ourselves. And the Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcasts, about Music. My name is Kirk Hamilton and I'm so glad that you

join me to talk about music played on the piano and music played on other

instruments and usually music played on the piano in combination with other

instruments. We're going to be talking about a great pianist on this

episode and I'm excited to get into it so turn the volume up nice and high, find a

comfortable place to sit and enjoy the show.

I still don't have an actual acoustic piano. Thus the piano that I play is an electric one.

It does have hammer action and it feels really good, but there are no

hammers hitting strings. Every piano that you hear on this show is just a

sample of a real piano. Albeit a pretty lovely piano sample. I've always

kind of held that up as one of the markers of when my studio has really become what I want it to be that I'll be able to have a real piano to play every day and to write at for a while when I taught when I directed a jazz band at a high school in San Francisco there

that I would just go in and play and it's so much fun to write at a real piano you

know to open it up and really see the hammers hitting the strings and to feel you know that immediate

response of the sound coming out of the instrument at you. I always loved writing on

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