I have been playing a short neck fretless for a couple of years now and I like it. However, recently, without my permission, while I wasn't lookin', without my knowledge, and I didn't do anything to it......it has started sounding Really Good. It suddenly has that good plunky old time sound that it didn't seem to have before. A friend noticed it first in last night's jam. He said that sometimes an instrument needs time to 'settle in'. Well, if that is true, I'm all for it. What is your experience with such things? LEE