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Post by LeoThunder on Sept 10, 2018 19:05:40 GMT
Has anyone here ever tried guitar gloves? If they last long enough, they should be the end of string manufacturers
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Post by MartinB on Sept 10, 2018 19:08:06 GMT
I dislike wearing gloves so it’s a tough sell for me
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Post by LeoThunder on Sept 11, 2018 2:27:28 GMT
I never heard of The Music Machine before. They look like 1965-66 and play funny guitars. I'll have to check them out, see what that was. But that guy has the glove on the wrong hand. I came upon the idea when considering the wearing off of strings through sweat and dirt, thinking coating the fingertips would be better than coating the strings. I understand wearing a glove seems unnatural at first but then holding a plectrum is too. I remember growing fingernails and playing with that instead when I started the first time in the 1980s. I had three cheap picks, light, medium and heavy which I often left in the gigbag. Now I see they all have gloves on one hand. I wonder what that was…
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Post by LeoThunder on Sept 11, 2018 3:15:19 GMT
Hey, I can play that guitar solo!
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Post by MartinB on Sept 11, 2018 5:46:23 GMT
There is a YouTube guy (bass player) who wears a glove on his fretting hand, although as I understand it he has a medical condition.
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Post by LeoThunder on Sept 11, 2018 7:10:38 GMT
Yes, Scott's Bass Lessons, who appears to be the inspiration for this very product. He's the one who taught me bass finger-style When I got a bass, I thought the very first thing to do was to learn this. The gloves are not primarily meant to save on strings, though, and it is questionable how much they would help but I suppose they would keep most of the dirt away from them unless in extreme sweating situations. The key question is how long they last. And if string lifetime is the main concern, maybe washing hands before playing and wiping strings afterwards is all one really needs to do. Someone wrote somewhere else that coated strings sound new the way regular strings do after a couple of weeks, read "after they got their natural coating". To me, this further confirms the duality of taste in people, opposing those who like them zingy new to those who want them "broken in". Coated strings might be interesting to the latter only. I never tried them. Wonder if I should…
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Post by salteedog on Sept 11, 2018 11:51:18 GMT
+1 for Scott's Bass Lessons. I enjoy his way of teaching.
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