This is part three in a series, so you should probably read Part I and Part II first. You don't have to, but you will have no idea what I'm talking about if you don't.

In Sidious' orchestra Jar Jar Binks plays the oboe. Why, you ask. Because, although the oboe is, in skilled hands, capable of producing some of the most beautiful sounds in the orchestra, it can also make some of the most obnoxious noise. Someone once described a bad oboist as sounding like a dying duck. Jar Jar looks kind of like a duck, so I guess that's the connection. And, badly played, it can sound funny in an annoying kind of way.

So, Jar Jar is a bad oboist. And the oboe often gets a solo. Jar Jar got his on the floor of the Senate, where he raised his small, incoherent voice and requested that Chancellor Palpatine be granted emergency powers.

More next week

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