Chester P Squier
Friend of Leo's
Except these two guys did not remove the mouthpieces. Just handed them off to each other.
Do you worry after someone plays it?
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Red Ryder
Friend of Leo's
Do you take your underwear off in the guitar store?
Lou Tencodpees
Tele-Afflicted
Every now and then I'll sit in a restaurant, look around at all the patrons dining. Then I'll wonder how many mouths my fork and spoon have been in.
Its a slippery slope, this thinking business.
Its a slippery slope, this thinking business.
The Eggman
TDPRI Member
I'm a neurotic person by nature and I don't worry about infectious diseases so much as just generally not liking things that have been touched by someone who I perceive to have bad personal hygiene and therefore their hands are 'dirty' and have made the guitar 'dirty' in a way that I can't get over unless I give the guitar a thorough cleaning.
You summed up the nature of the post I was typing while I was typing it
MarkieMark
Friend of Leo's
Well...
I checked for cameras first.
memorex
Poster Extraordinaire
It's not a problem for me because I can count on the fingers of one hand all the people in this world I care enough about to let touch one of my instruments, and I don't worry about them.
fjblair
Friend of Leo's
Step outside and take a deep breath.
Brent Hutto
Tele-Afflicted
I’d be fine with someone playing my guitar. Maybe they’d play something good!
No worries about getting Cooties unless maybe it was a drummer.
No worries about getting Cooties unless maybe it was a drummer.
Interesting question.
First, I am indeed a bit of a germophobe.
Second, I do indeed screen who I hand my guitars to, and when I had a big community of players who came to my space to play music, I kept plenty of loaner guitars and a bass and drumset.
Amps too, loaners, and MINE.
Then OTOH I have hugged people with HIV AIDS because dammit they needed a hug and few were offering.
Not random strangers, but friends with the scary bug.
A true friend, a good friend, a trusted friend, those are not plentiful and they are very welcome to play favorite guitars.
People are worth way more than guitars.
Also I done looked death in the mouth many times and my sense is I am not getting off so easy as to die young!
Seriously, life is hard, choices matter.
Comfort is not the top prioriy...
First, I am indeed a bit of a germophobe.
Second, I do indeed screen who I hand my guitars to, and when I had a big community of players who came to my space to play music, I kept plenty of loaner guitars and a bass and drumset.
Amps too, loaners, and MINE.
Then OTOH I have hugged people with HIV AIDS because dammit they needed a hug and few were offering.
Not random strangers, but friends with the scary bug.
A true friend, a good friend, a trusted friend, those are not plentiful and they are very welcome to play favorite guitars.
People are worth way more than guitars.
Also I done looked death in the mouth many times and my sense is I am not getting off so easy as to die young!
Seriously, life is hard, choices matter.
Comfort is not the top prioriy...
FenderGyrl
Poster Extraordinaire
Not often.
I carry Hand Sanitizer and Wet Wipes.
If I do play one, I always wipe my hands afterward.
I just have an issue with other peoples bodily fluids. I don't let people at work use my phone or my pens. I'm kinda twisted.
Been like this ever since I was little.
Bathroom door handles. All kinds of stuff makes me go Howard Hughes.
<Laughing Here>
FG
TF from MN
Tele-Meister
I took a guitar to a local shop to have a strap button put on.
The guy who did it smelled strongly of greasy burgers and fries, mixed with B.O.
I'm no germophobe, but I was not happy that he touched my guitar.
The guy who did it smelled strongly of greasy burgers and fries, mixed with B.O.
I'm no germophobe, but I was not happy that he touched my guitar.
As a kid I had pet allergies, and in the 1960s it was popular to blame the child when they could not breathe or see due to being dragged to parties at houses full of dogs and cats.
A side effect of touching dogs resulting in my eyes and lungs swelling shut, was a skin infection resulting in my eyes being stuck shut when I woke up, so I had to feel my way to the bathroom and soak them open with a washcloth.
Long and short of that was I always knew exactly what my hands had touched since I last washed them!
Still do pretty much but childhood allergies are not as bad and allergy meds actually work.
More than once as a kid I had to be brought to the ER or an ambulance called when I stopped breathing!
Attitudes toward children have improved since we were kids but it seems funny that in a supposedly advanced civilization, kids are still so poorly understood, and parents still experiment on them like guitars in need of upgrades.
Well yeah but you could have changed your mind when hiring a professional to take care of your guitar, who clearly had not yet learned how to take care of himself?
I let other people (who I know) play my guitars. I'm not a fan of letting someone I don't know pick them up, but it has nothing to do with worrying about illness. I just don't want some clown smashing up my gear.
FenderGyrl
Poster Extraordinaire
Only to wipe off a guitars strings before I play it.
<Laughing Here>
Timbresmith1
Friend of Leo's
Nah. I don’t generally associate with slobs.
MarkieMark
Friend of Leo's
Personally, I find it presumptuous to assume I wore underwear to the guitar store.
4pickupguy
Doctor of Teleocity
No. I don’t worry about getting sick. More sick of the worry than worrying about the sick.
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