A Tribute To The Nerdiest Of Instruments

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 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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0:00.0	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
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0:12.6	slash events.
0:13.6	Hey there, Greta here.
0:17.4	We are on vacation this week and we were thinking about what we should
0:21.2	air over the break and we were like why not
0:23.6	replay one of the greatest Nerd Add episodes of all time. So here you go from
0:31.3	all the way back in August of 2017.
0:34.3	Geez that is almost three years.
0:36.3	Here's me co-host emeritus Tricia Bobita and a whole bunch of
0:41.9	bassoons. From W.BeeZ Chicago, this is Nurdat.
0:46.0	I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:48.0	And I'm Greta Johnson, and this week's episode is all about the nerdiest instrument
0:52.0	in the Symphonyphony orchestra.
0:53.9	Oh, the sousophone.
0:57.8	That's pretty good, but nerdier.
0:59.6	The French heart.
1:01.5	Also nerdy, but nerdier.
1:03.0	Um, tuba.
1:05.0	tuba is pretty nerdy but also gets credit for marching bands.
1:08.0	So I think this instrument is still nerdyer than the tuba.
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