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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this chock-full-of-bassoons episode, we talk about the history of the orchestra's largest woodwind with bassoonist and culture writer Eileen Reynolds, we jam with a principal bassoonist from the Chicago Philharmonic, and we even call up the self-proclaimed “Bassoon King,” The Office's Rainn Wilson.

Join Johnsen, Nerdette co-host emeritus Tricia Bobeda and this bevy of bassoon buffs for more bassoon than you knew you needed.

This episode originally aired on August 11, 2017.

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0:30.9	Hey there, Greta here. We are on vacation this week. And we were thinking about what we should
0:36.6	air over the break. And we were like,
0:38.1	why not replay one of the greatest nerd ad episodes of all time? So here you go from all the way back
0:47.6	in August of 2017. Geez, that is almost three years. Here's me, co-host emeritus, Trisha Bobita, and a whole bunch of bassoons.
0:59.1	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdat.
1:02.0	I'm Trisha Bobita.
1:03.0	And I'm Greta Johnson.
1:04.3	And this week's episode is all about the nerdiest instrument in the symphony orchestra.
1:09.3	Oh, uh, the sousaphone.
1:12.9	That's pretty good, but nerder.
1:14.9	The French horn.
1:16.7	Also nerdy, but nerdier.
1:20.0	Tuba.
1:20.8	Tuba is pretty nerdy, but also gets credit for marching band.
1:23.9	So I think this instrument is still nerder than the tuba.
1:26.9	All right, I give up.
1:27.9	All right. Here's a hint.
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