Last night on TV I watched an informal jazz presentation. The standup bass was wonderful. There's a depth of sound the electric just can't approximate.

Once playing at a dance in Sitka, the upright-bass player who sat in with us was in his 'real' life a jazz player. Gorgeous- carried us on his wings.

A friend of mine bought his wife an electric bass; she played it in the band for awhile but was never quite happy with it. So they bought an upright, and now she's got two of them. One for here, and they keep another one in Kentucky for when they snowbird out of here each winter.