"I write everything, and I write it all on staff papers, score it out," explains Melora. "Then we learn it from there. We don't do much jamming or changing it around, I think that's just the nature of the instrument because we don't have frets, and pitch and tone is such a delicate thing between the three of us. The arrangements are very tight, you have to be in the right place at the right time. We like to work that way, and we find that in popular music that's a little bit looked down upon. Because classical musicians are under no pressure to write their own material."

Where does Melora get her ideas for lyrics?

"It's very much like setting myself on an assignment," she says. "I'm either a character or I'm inspired by whatever I enjoy reading. And I read a lot of history, so it's trying to imagine the personality and personal side of history. It's an enjoyable task for me, and it's where a lot of the lyrics come from."