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If you will be mostly playing for fun, consider a bass ukulele.
The same Thomann web pages include a kit bass guitar for £77 (€89). This should provide some idea of how much the finishing, assembly and labour cost.
But I suppose I could look at electric fretless too, though going by some of the video demos, they do sound very different again to acoustic models.
I am watching a used crafter fretless acoustic on ebay this week. They're not bad for the money so will see how that goes too.
But maybe an electric fretless with flatwounds might get me close too, and use some of the playing techniques I've seen on YT to mimic an upright.
Tom at Feline valiantly stitched the preamp back together again, but I suspect I'm going to have them wire the pickup straight to the output. Not that this needs concern you, as I'm sure the one you're getting isn't knackered.
The Rotosound strings, though, I'd strongly recommend for your purposes.
Good guitar, though.
I’ve played a couple of more modern ‘electro-acoustic type’ ones, and even amplified they just never had the nice deep boom/hollow upright-bass type sound of the Eko. I’ve actually got better results from a semi-solid/magnetic pickup fretless... I once had a 60s Epiphone Rivoli with knackered frets so I defretted it, and it sounded great. Still can’t understand why I sold that - and the matching fretted Gibson EB-2 .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
There’s a reason upright players tolerate the utter inconvenience of lugging around a massive instrument....
I use Spectrasonics Trillian. Even with extensive multiple layer sampling and semi-random playback, the machine gives itself away.
And even then it was only roughly similar - certainly wouldn't pass for a real one if you listened closely. It was the closest I'd want to get physically though!
One of these...
Mine came to me with no headstock. Accidental, rather than Steinberger conversion .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The usual tell-tale with keyboard-triggered samples of stringed instruments is that some of the note and lick choices would not come naturally on the real instrument. Including samples of handling noises and squeaks helps to improve the illusion.
The same is true with MIDI drum tracks. My efforts at programming take an eternity. They are rarely as believable as a real time performance on MIDI trigger pads by a proper drummer.