Ron is one of the nicest people in the music biz that I have met. Definitely a thrill to get to meet him at the Northern California gatherings!
I'm definitely more of a bassist than a guitarist - in recent years I kind of made it a personal rule to not play guitar - mainly because that helps cut way down on the possible gear purchases!
I've been playing a bass with a high C string, which would be a B string on the guitar. So that switch from tuning that high string either a major third or a fourth can be confusing sometimes. I normally tune the baritone A-A like a guitar but starting on A, but once I thought, I'll tune it like a 6-string bass, so that all the strings are in fourths - that really messed me up!
But bass is fun, if you get a 4-string Alembic you won't have any problems!
