Paul S

That does help a lot, but its more about the finger span for me - spot of arthritis makes my hands less mobile these days so not having to stretch out quite as far is a lot more comfy.  

In terms of basses I`m keeping I`m down to one regular scale bass (my fave Precision that I`ll never sell due to our shared history) and from now on will only buy short scale basses, they just work so much better for me.

I'm a recent convert to 32" - there really should be more of them out there!