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Is there anything you veteran D-10 players do to keep your C6 strings from getting funked up from sweat from your right arm when playing the front neck?

I've seen people lay a small towel over the changer endo of the C6 neck while playing E9. My suggestions, wear a long sleeved shirt and play more C6!

Leave your double neck guitar in the case.

Thanks, Mr. Bovine, for your helpful suggestion. You sound like a very pleasant fellow. I'm sure that when you got your first D-10 the C6 neck knowledge just came flowing out of your fingers like magic. Unfortunately, I'm one of those poor people that has to practice it to learn it.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Michael Haselman on 29 January 2003 at 08:20 AM.]</p></FONT>

Leaving it the case probably won't help anyway. The strings get covered with crud there too.

Jim has it right.....play it.....don't lean on it! The C6th I hear the pros playing on steel radio is the greatest! I love the E9th, too, don't get me wrong. I have a S10 tuned C6th just for me, but I surely do miss that other neck. They are both great tunings, but don't give up one for the other!
Play them both! Expand your horizons!<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Doug Seymour on 29 January 2003 at 09:28 AM.]</p></FONT>

Let me see if I can clarify this. I just got a D-10 a few months ago. I've been playing e9 for 25 years. I play in a country cover band. I'm learning and practicing the c6 when I get a chance. That's why I purchased a D-10, so I could learn the C6. Unfortunately, most of the tunes I play call for the E9 neck. When I play gigs my arm gets sweaty, and I don't always wear long-sleeved shirts. It's not an issue of how much or little I play the neck. I just wanted to know if there's a good way to keep the sweat off the strings. If I didn't want to actually play the neck someday, I guess I wouldn't care if the strings got all funky.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Michael Haselman on 29 January 2003 at 11:29 AM.]</p></FONT>

Michael

I use a small towel (like a bar-towel) even though I'd rather not - it feels odd to me and I'm used to the feel of the back neck under my arm.

It does help, but I only do that when the humidity's extreme.

I always wear a long-sleeved shirt.

Donny's said it! Always wear a long sleeve shirt.......al

Excuse me.......... Does anyone have photo's of top pickers/session players that actually have to rest their weary arms on the strings of the C6th neck? I've NEVER SEEN it!

Isn't there something about proper "posture" when playing a double neck steel guitar?

I NEVER observed it when triple and quad neck guitars were the rage. Is this another new invention? Time is fading rapidly and I need to have some factual input before I expire with wrong impressions left in my headbone.

THANX all!