Our group has had a couple of bass players, but one is too busy with the Oakland symphony and the other gigging with jazz and country groups and playing with her partner for retirement homes, so most of the time we're without that wonderful bottom. Next time I get my head out of the financial hole my year's instrument buying binge has got me in I think I'll buy an accoustic-electric guitar bass. I'd love to make it a bull fiddle, but I don't think I have time to learn a fretless instrument (I may get a fretless banjo sometime) or the money to buy a decent one. --seed