David, Gary, Mike, Olie, Doc, Normand, Harry and Jeff,
Thanks for all your kind words, and encouragement regarding my transition to the Alembic perspective. I am looking forward to the journey. However, when I die, you will still have to pry my fingers off my first bass, EB-2 (1968), that I have played, and still play, for nearly 40 years (the Kalamazoo didn't count). I am sure some of those bass thingies I own will move on to less enlightened individuals. Allen