It's SOOO hard to play cello with cracked fingers!
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- In the winter months, we string players tend to find that our fingers crack easily (especially us older adults). This video will show you what professionals do to heal our fingers and keep us practicing (and performing!).
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I have been using Liquid Bandage for years in the aviation industry, but never thought of using it now that I have picked up the cello again. Good stuff! Good tip! Thanks Carolyn.
Liquid Bandage can be purchased in any American drugstore or any one of the big box stores that start with "Wal" and end with "mart". You will readily find it in the First Aid section.
I play 'cello now (for the past 3 years) and take great pleasure in it, but for 38 years I was a professional double-bass player. I remember at least two instances in which I went and played a symphony concert with injuries to my left hand. Once it was a black-and-blue bruise (from a fall) to the palm of my left hand. The other time it was a deep cut to my left fore-finger. I was a very passionate symphony performer and refused to yield to these misfortunes, so I just got out on there on stage and endured the discomfort for a couple of hours. Now as for the liquid bandage, I find that it is very slick on the string and will cause your finger to slide. But it's great stuff, and I'm glad you discovered it. BTW: I live in the southland too. Born in Tampa, raised in Houston, live now in slightly cooler northwest Arkansas. I really enjoy your videos. You are delightful to watch and listen too.
I love the idea of shea butter to prevent the cracks because once they occur it can take weeks for them to totally heal in a winter dry climate. I know some people who wear some kind of very thin glove to bed with the cream on! I definitely have had success with the liquid bandaid yucky stuff.
Great hints! Thank you for selecting this useful topic in your channel. The brand of this liquid bandage in Mexico is called “Microdacyn”.
Awesome - thanks for this!
Do you all have other ideas of things you can do to heal cracked fingers?!
hi, good afternoon, here in Brazil the summer is terrible, with an average temperature of 35 degrees Celsius, on one occasion I had to play with a bandage, but unfortunately it took away the sensitivity of my finger, I'm going to look for this type of band aid around here, thanks for the tip. God blesses.
Hi there! Yes, when you use the bandage, you should cut a tiny sliver of the sticky part of the bandage and put that directly over the cut. The whole bandage will definitely take away sensitivity.
Liquid bandages works, but I usually suffer from finger blisters which I try to prevent in a different way. I usually take my cello out of its closet once a year at year end. And I play for hours at a time. I usually need to develop callus on my left fingers from scratch every year. I find that I can relieve pains from my fingertips by fidgeting “fidget ice packs” which look like tiny bottles with finger indentations. By fidgeting an ice pack every hour between practice sessions, I can prevent blisters from forming. In the last three weeks I have managed to build up nice callused skin that no longer need cooling from fidget ice packs.
But there had been years where even fidget ice packs couldn't completely prevent blisters from forming. After blisters broke... that was when liquid bandage came into the picture for me.
Love your videos.
Thanks for your story @FredHsu! I will have to try out those "fidget ice packs" - great idea!