> I'm a big bass fan, m'self. I don't play electric (though I'd like to learn), but I can slap an upright double bass pretty darn well. What do you play? I'm going to guess... cello!

Nope.
Well, if you ask me, I wouldn't call what I do to that fiddle playing. OK, my teacher is classically trained, so 'violin,' but I'm working on the Irish fiddling [jigs, reels, double jigs, hornpipes, polkas, et all] on my own. Not to mention the airs and most anything I can figure out off a CD or find from O'Carolan....

Short question, long answer. Sorry.
Well, at least I have no affiliation to the violas other than being in the very end of the second violin section on an all-too-regular basis....

--Chris"still pure, never even tried viola"tine