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10-15-2009, 03:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Minnesota | | | Hand Washing Before Playing
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I'm just curious if any of you are like me and religously wash your hands before playing your bass? How bout going as far as insisting that others wash their hands before playing your bass? I do.
Then when I am done I wipe the bass down with a microfiber cloth.
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10-15-2009, 03:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Plano, TX | | | Not me. I save lots of money on string lube by utilizing the natural greasiness inherent in my dirty hands.
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10-15-2009, 03:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Michigan's U.P. | | | I wash my hands before playing but generally only if I have done something that warrants like eating food, working, handling messy stuff or having a sit on the Lu.
It drives me batty that I see basses that look like people were eating chicken as they were playing....ug!
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10-15-2009, 03:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ankara | | | I wash them before stage.
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10-15-2009, 03:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Eastern Wisconsin | | | I probably don't regularily do it, but I do if I think there's any reason my hands aren't as clean as they should be. I HATE to play with grease on my fingers, and I hate playing greasy strings. So, I don't play with dirty hands, but generally my hands are pretty clean anyway, so I don't always feel the need to wash 'em up beforehand. |
10-15-2009, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by DoggBisket  I'm just curious if any of you are like me and religously wash your hands before playing your bass? How bout going as far as insisting that others wash their hands before playing your bass? I do.
Then when I am done I wipe the bass down with a microfiber cloth. | I do the second, but not the first.
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10-15-2009, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden. | | I wash my hands before playing. And as such, I also require others to do the same before touching my bass. Whats the use if I do it, if everyone else doesn't? 
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10-15-2009, 03:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | | I always forget to, and I always wish I did. It's a good idea if you want your strings to last.
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10-15-2009, 03:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Chicagoland | | | My friend requested I wash my hands before I played one of his guitars (his prized one). I did, but laughed to myself as his guitar isn't so great. I respect his rules, if he wants me to wash my hands I will, but I would understand more if he had an awesome guitar.
Of course if my hands are dirty I'd wash them before playing any instrument, but my hands don't tend to have grease or dirt on them. Just the standard bacteria and such. |
10-15-2009, 03:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SF Bay Area North CA | | | ...easier said than done during a busy gig.... |
10-15-2009, 03:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Tulsa | | I have gone off the deep end and wash too much - even if I took a 20 minute break I wash again. Not sure how I developed this compulsion, but it has taken a good hold over the years. Oh, I don't let anyone play my bass!! 
I think I will go wash now.....
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10-15-2009, 03:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Chicagoland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BigOldHarry I always forget to, and I always wish I did. It's a good idea if you want your strings to last. | of course that depends on how you like your strings |
10-15-2009, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | Lots more important to wash after playing than before, IMO. Especially before you grab that cheeseburger on break. |
10-15-2009, 03:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NYC | | | fwiw I wash my hands before I touch my instruments, between sets and I politely ask anyone using my instruments on a session wash their hands first...
I find on bass, dirty strings are really annoying... it is seeming to bother me more as I get older. |
10-15-2009, 03:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Dunfermline, Scotland | | I do, I find it easier to play if I do
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10-15-2009, 03:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NJ via NYC | | | Actually, I do. It just makes them feel nicer on the strings.
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10-15-2009, 03:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Olympia WA | | I always wash my hands before I pick up my bass. If I sweat a lot, I will wash them any chance I can get.
I make others wash before picking up my bass.
I get icked out when folks dont wash up after the restroom...eww... |
10-15-2009, 06:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Florida, in the U.S.A. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gab124 I have gone off the deep end and wash too much - even if I took a 20 minute break I wash again. Not sure how I developed this compulsion, but it has taken a good hold over the years. Oh, I don't let anyone play my bass!! | ^ This. And I keep a CLEAN, soft, cotton towel in my back pocket for hand drying between songs.
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10-15-2009, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Vancouver Washington | | | I'm guilty of this, and I use a cloth to wipe down, and I use the string cleaner to clean my strings after each session.
*hugs his ocd*
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10-15-2009, 07:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: los angeles, ca | | | i don't want to give my bass the swine flu
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