the u-bass represents a new age of the bass, in its idea as in the manner to play of it! original and new, it is a semi-acoustic instrument, its name comes from "utopia", ideal and flawless world. it offers a so much important dynamics that one can conceive its game in a new manner, whole happens between your fingers and strings . your possibilities of expression are multiplicated. the sounds of upright bass are so disersified that one can not reproduce them all, therefore, it does not concern to imitate them, but to give the possibility to the musician to find the spirit of "acoustics". the free floating sound table and its special bridge make the object of an international patent. http://www.jeromewolf.com/leduc