The modern piano keyboard has 88 keys. There are 52 white ones, those are the natural notes, and 36 black ones, those are the

sharps and the flats. There weren't always 88 keys, but at some point, everyone kind of agreed,

88, that's the number. If you ask me, 88 is a perfect number of keys to have on a piano,

but that's just me.

Let's ask the horns what they think. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

and uh, and uh, the uh... uh... Oh, Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcasts, a Podcasts, about Music. My name is Kirk Hamilton Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that you

joined me to talk about the white keys and the black keys and the many

combinations of the two that produce that wonderful thing that we call music.

We're going to be talking a lot about the piano today and about a very famous piano

player so pour yourself a beverage, find your favorite listening spot. Sit back,

relax, and enjoy the show. A couple of notes before we get started.

First of all, I hope you like the new Strong Songs theme music.

I spent quite a while writing it and recording it. It was a lot of fun. I played

all the instruments on this version of it, though this version is somewhat of a work in progress.

There are a couple of musicians that I would like to add to the final version, so I will be doing that in the weeks to come.

It might not even be something that you would notice but there will be a few other

musicians on there which is also fairly exciting. That new music of course was

the reward for the first goal on my Patreon to support this show. We reached 150

backers and that meant I was going to write new music so I was very happy to do that.

If you like this show and want to support it I really hope that you'll at least check

out the Patreon it's at Patreon.com slash strong songs hope that you'll at least check out the Patreon. It's at Patreon.com

slash strong songs and that you will consider being a backer. This is the very

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