الكونتراباصKuntrabass

Translated to Arabic, 'The Double Bass' a play by the German writer Patrick Süskind (b. 1949).
'The play consists of an extended monologue delivered by a double bass player, who speaks to the audience in his small sound-proofed apartment while drinking beer. He is in his mid-thirties and is employed at a State Orchestra. At first he praises his instrument and its importance in the orchestra by telling anecdotes about its history and by actually playing it. With a considerable humour, he reveals more and more of his past and present rather than his current misery. He did not pick his instrument out of love and he never has company.' (Wikipedia)