Post away, Toby! I’d rather see you post and know you are alive and kicking than the opposite 
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Thanks Joerg my friend. I will try not to scare people away from the thread 
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And if you have a new glove joke, please do share with us
In the meantime: I keep my fingers crossed (re: your other current thread - jeez…)!
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Hmmm, glove joke. Got me stumped. Cant put a glove on a stump, so I guess thats the joke 
And thanks for the other thing.
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I did some of Scott’s Bass Lessons and he has an issue with his hands and found using gloves allows him to play. I recently have had some issues with the elbow of my fretting hand\arm and had to have surgery on that arm so I thought I would try the gloves. I was amazed at how well I could play with those gloves on. I play a lot of Motown stuff and I find the gloves are like putting the foam under the strings sound wise but without knocking off the sustain the way the old school dampening pads would do on the early basses. My arm is now healed but I still use the gloves. I have a pair with the fingers removed and it allows me to use my bare fingers on the strings and use the gloves for muting. The gloves also allow a person to slide up and down the neck faster. The point a lot of players say a gloss neck causes the sticky thing and the sand the neck. I play on gloss necks only and have never found that to be an issue at all. I use the knit cotton or cotton polyester gloves. They have to be those close fit thin ones and not a cotton work glove.
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Glad to hear this helped you
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I play with a glove all the time I’ve actually found i prefer it. Nice cut resistant gloves worth best. I like these
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Not the subtle choice
But whatever helps!!
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Keeps the roundwound burn to a minimum
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I don’t have any more to say on this subject other than what I’ve already said. I’m only posting this comment as a way of poking @joergkutter . 
(The cancer hasn’t affected my sense of humor).
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That’s really all I needed to read 
And… I do let people partake in my wisdom here now and then, @PamPurrs 
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Kidding aside and taking Focal Dystonia out of the equation, I would probably not want to use gloves as a means of keeping gunk off the strings and fretboard. IMO, It’s like putting seat covers on your really nice premium leather car seats that you paid extra for, it robs you of the full experience.
I could see using them when playing in an outdoor venue in cold weather, but even in those situations I would probably look for gloves with exposed fingertips. Something along the lines of the mittens below might work well.
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Haha, yeah back when I wrote this (July '19), I wasn’t sure whether it wasn’t frowned upon to actually mention Volde…vine here on this forum
That’s not my primary goal for sure. It ain’t focal dystonia either… for me, it’s more like a support stocking (I have some pinky issues), and it reduces string noise, and - I think - it makes fretting “faster”.
But, as the saying in this forum goes, YMMV
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So i don’t know about focal dystonia, but i just like playing with the glove. I kinda like how it sounds. There are people here who are tone experts-and if that’s your bag, go with it.
The gloves i use are almost like a second skin. They are very form fitting and very thin-i don’t notice any difference in feeling-then again, numb hands are my thing now.
Use a glove, or don’t. But play your bass.
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The weather has been pretty dry lately and my left hand is very dry and peeling. Playing without glove would make it worse, especially when I do a lot of shifts and slide. Have a spring concert to perform tomorrow so it would have to be with glove. A good thing about it too as it gets hot on stage swears won’t be an issue.
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Ha, there are more “glove players” than I thought… good luck with the gig!!
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Thanks. It’s a double duty for me. My job is to keep both drummer and another bassist on track and on time plus adding fills and transitions to let the rest of the singers know what’s coming. Got to say one of the teacher is playing the violin, omg she’s really really good, some amazing tone at rehearsal, she and I has a 16 bars duet with my Fretless, I can’t wait.
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Interesting - certainly doesn’t sound like your standard rock gig
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Any chance someone might video that so we could have a listen @Al1885
I’m very interested to hear it
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