hi keith, this is ramon i just want to continue this thread by saying that wow! 30+ choir group! that's great and those leslie speaker's must be awsome. but when you show up with your new smith bsr5gn! your fellow band mate's better look out. that unique smith sound is gonna bring down the house. as a fellow smith owner i can first hand tell you that your church worship will never be the same!. i'm a fellow church bassist here in so. calif. refuge temple. it took me probably close to 7 year's to get my hand's on a smith bass and the sound a smith put's out is definately in a class of it's own. i hope that your wait will be a short one and that you let us know about your new smith bass