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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. He reveals too that once when his car broke down and stranded him and his instrument in the cold, he gave his coat to the bass, thereby adding to the image of a lonely man who realises that his performance is mediocre:
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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
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in the silence full of expectation before the soft beginning. When he leaves for the performance in concert dress, the end is open. The double bass is the largest instrument in the string family which means it is lowest pitched instrument.
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Tell me if you can why a grown man in his mid-thirties, namely me, should have to live with an instrument that's a constant handicap to him?! Humanly, socially, sexually, musically, in traffic – nothing but a
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Können Sie mir sagen, wieso ein Mann Mitte Dreißig, nämlich ich, mit einem
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has played the piece for more than 30 years, admitting that he is too old for the character, but still works on new nuances.
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