Stinky fingers

[Smitty70]

How come my Ingres stink after playing my guitar? It has d'darrio strings

[fazool]

Originally Posted by Smitty70

How come my Ingres stink after playing my guitar? It has d'darrio strings

I'm assuming "Ingres" is a touch screen typo version of the word "fingers"?

It is very likely a corrosion or oxidation reaction to the metal.

If you have an aluminum cookie sheet, go scrub it with a green kitchen scrubby and look at the aluminum oxide black dust all over and smell it. Different metal, different smell but it illustrates how metal can make your hands smell.

[chitz]

Can't touch this.

[JakeStone]

Originally Posted by chitz

Can't touch this.

Well played..

[HHP]

I wish the only thing that stunk about my playing was my fingers.

[ewalling]

Originally Posted by HHP

I wish the only thing that stunk about my playing was my fingers.

Imagine if it were your ingres. You wouldn't be quite so pucker then ...

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by HHP

I wish the only thing that stunk about my playing was my fingers.

Um, actually, it is...

[Bill Yellow]

Maybe you could get your fingers wrapped in a nano-protective polymer sheath.

I can't think of another way ...

[JakeStone]

Stinky Fingers ..

Isn't that the name of a Rolling Stones Album?

[Rondoraymundo]

Supposedly, legendary bass player James Jamerson never changed his strings. Those are the same stings on What's Going On and You Can't Hurry Love and the other 30 number one hits he played on. I think that stank finger helped put the funk into the Funk Brothers.

[Inyo]

Originally Posted by fazool

It is very likely a corrosion or oxidation reaction to the metal.

If you have an aluminum cookie sheet, go scrub it with a green kitchen scrubby and look at the aluminum oxide black dust all over and smell it. Different metal, different smell but it illustrates how metal can make your hands smell.

A much more probable scenario is that such mephitic emanations are created by putrefying perspiration particles left behind on guitar strings; fingers engaged in vigorous guitar activity activate continuously accumulating minute quantities of sudoriferous secretions that cling to strings to inevitably decay through bacterial interaction, thus initiatating scents most disagreeable to the olfactory apparatus.

A combination of appropriate bodily and instrument hygiene should eliminate the malodorous situation: AKA--wash your hands before instrument participations; wipe down the strings immediately after playing; and clean the fretboard on a regular basis.

[mr. beaumont]

Yeah, it might be what's coming out of you.

Had a gig once, Itallian restaurant. Was to play from 8 to 10, was a place my wife wanted to try, so we decided to make reservations for 6, have dinner, and then she could hang out at the bar with some friends after and watch me play.

Had the Osso Buco. Man, you could have smelled those strings a block away by 10pm. Garlic coming right out of me.

[Smitty70]

Never thought this question would have got me so many laughs. I hate it when my fangers stank. Lord knows my playing does!