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05-26-2007, 10:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Baltimore,MD | | | Do you wash your hands before playing?
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Its probably been done before, but ima ressurect it.
Do you wash your hands before playing your bass?
I dont bother with my electric because I want it to get really worn in and get dirrrrty. also, when i play a gig i sweat all over it which isnt really cleaning it.
as for my upright (which i got 2 days ago), i try to keep my hands somewhat clean because its a new (expensive!) instrument. |
05-26-2007, 10:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Finland | | | i do if they are visibly dirty or if they are greasy from cooking etc.
otherwise no. |
05-26-2007, 10:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio | | | I don't know why, but I have an obsession with cleaning my hands when I play. I wash my hands before I take my bass out of its case. Then before we play I will wash my hands again. And I wash like a surgeon washing his hands. The thing that really bugs me is that I am not that anal about washing my hands any other time.
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05-26-2007, 10:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Birmingham AL | | Yes and yes. Sucks when you play a nasty bar that has no sink in either of the bathrooms! Thats usually when I walk behind the bar and ask if I can use the bar sink lol.  |
05-26-2007, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Osama_Spears  Its probably been done before, but ima ressurect it.
Do you wash your hands before playing your bass?
I dont bother with my electric because I want it to get really worn in and get dirrrrty. also, when i play a gig i sweat all over it which isnt really cleaning it.
as for my upright (which i got 2 days ago), i try to keep my hands somewhat clean because its a new (expensive!) instrument. | It's much easier to get grime off of a DB fingerboard than a fretted electric. |
05-26-2007, 10:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Syracuse, NY | | | I just wash my hands period. seriously I wash my hands atleast 10 times a day. Probably why I don't get sick often too. |
05-26-2007, 10:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Apalachin, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkometer Yes and yes. Sucks when you play a nasty bar that has no sink in either of the bathrooms! Thats usually when I walk behind the bar and ask if I can use the bar sink lol. | +1 I'm with you.
I wash my hands fairly frequently every day as I handle all sorts of stuff that has passed through other's hands. Always before I get the bass out. It still gets grungy after a while but not as quickly as if I didn't wash each time.  |
05-26-2007, 10:49 AM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | Yeah, I hate playing if my hands or fingers are even remotely sticky. They gotta be clean before I pick up my bass! |
05-26-2007, 11:05 AM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDuck Yeah, I hate playing if my hands or fingers are even remotely sticky. They gotta be clean before I pick up my bass! | +1
i like my hands clean on my bass also. |
05-26-2007, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Osama_Spears Do you wash your hands before playing your bass? | only when I would wash my hands anyway, like after hauling dusty/grimy PA speakers into the venue
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05-26-2007, 11:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Thornhill, Ontario, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDuck Yeah, I hate playing if my hands or fingers are even remotely sticky. They gotta be clean before I pick up my bass! | +1 I'm paranoid about dirty, greasy hands, and I make sure others wash before touching my gear too. |
05-26-2007, 11:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: N. Ca. Martinez | | | Aside from the fact that we live in a world where a lot of people do not wash their hands (i.e. GERMS), I wash before I play the bass.....it feels better than sticky grimmey hands....I also wash after going anywhere public......after all....it is a sick world. John |
05-26-2007, 11:20 AM
| | | | I wash my hands before practicing but never right before a gig unless my hands are sticky or something. I play finger style so getting my hands wet leave them tender. |
05-26-2007, 11:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Mudsock,Ohio | | | If their is a oppertunity too, then yea I will.
If not ,I can live with the dirt. No big deal.
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05-26-2007, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperDuck Yeah, I hate playing if my hands or fingers are even remotely sticky. They gotta be clean before I pick up my bass! | Quote:
Originally Posted by Xed32 +1 I'm paranoid about dirty, greasy hands, and I make sure others wash before touching my gear too. | +1000000
I also wash my hands before starting to work at the compu Quote:
Originally Posted by toaster2k3 ...getting my hands wet leave them tender. | I always thought that happened when I don't practice often enough . . . |
05-26-2007, 11:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Ireland | | | I find my skin gets very soft when I wash them. Even thoroughly drying them still leaves the skin soft making it uncomfortable to play. The worst is when I have a shower and play straight after
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05-26-2007, 11:37 AM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | I wash 'em after load-in and before taking it out of the case. Then I wash between every set.
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05-26-2007, 11:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Munjibunga I wash 'em after load-in and before taking it out of the case. Then I wash between every set. | Munji - We have the same routine! cool!
As well as not wanting to crud up my gear - for me strangely or not I believe I have better feel with clean hands.
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05-26-2007, 12:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Zagreb, Croatia | | | yes. I had a solo performance this week and I washed hands just before I went on stage. |
05-26-2007, 12:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Orlando, FL | | | No. Period. Unless I just ate chicken and they're really greasy. Otherwise, I don't care.
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