Hmmm, hadn’t thought of it like that, it’s a far more complicated design than the mouse, in fact your comment really has made me think about the Mouse. I don’t think of it firstly as a beautiful thing because that is far outweighed by the fact that when I pick it up I always marvel at how light it is and then how comfortable it is to play, next I think how easy it is to write on and how new basslines seem to fall out of it. Then, when I’ve emerged from Mouseworld, I invariably look at it just before it goes in the rack and even then it’s not particularly the aesthetics or the build, it’s a kind of awe at how easily new music seems to come out of it each time I pick it up. This is what I want to feel about a fretted bass too. Hmmmm food for thought.