I just sanded all the skin of my G and A on a belt sander!
It’s very hard to play through bandaids.
Cuts and strikes are feeling like … cuts and strikes (“ooh” and “ouch” have become my new embellishmernt). and there lots more typos in my posts.
How long does it take for skin to grow back? Are there any short-cuts(ouch) 
Band-aid brand adhesive bandages (and anyone else’s, too) are a pain in the ass when whistling. They don’t seal with a damn. So for small finger cuts and scrapes, I dab on a little cyanoacrylate glue (a.k.a. CA glue, Super Glue, etc.).
I am not, however, suggesting you try this, as I have no idea how adept you are with glue. (Hopefully, better than with a belt sander) There’s always the chance that you could glue your finger to your whistle (or to something worse) if you don’t let it get good and dry before you touch things. And when using CA glue as a bandage, one must be very careful to disinfect the wound very thoroughly before applying the glue, or you’ll seal in festering crawlie germs and your finger will go bad and drop off, then you’d never be able to play a G again.
In the event you are making model rockets or fixing a broken whistle and want to learn about CA glue, here’s the wikipedia article on Cyanoacrylate and another from the folks at The Straight Dope. Note that the second article points out that medical CA glue is slightly different from the stuff you get at the hobby shop, which can burn you if slathered on in large amounts.
Again, I would stress that I am not recommending this course of action. I am not a doctor and I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, and just because I’m silly enough to put glue on my fingers and just leave it there while the wound heals under it until the glue just wears off doesn’t mean you have to be.
Medical CA glue is marketed under the names Dermabond and Traumaseal, but you may have to actually end up in the ER to get these.
Oh my God!
I’ve just super glued my whistle to my forehead!!
I use cyanoacrylate glue all the time for small cuts and scrapes I get in the shop (whistle making literally requires blood, sweat, and tears 
). Drop it on, LET IT DRY COMPLETELY before touching anything, then just go about your business.
When my wife had gastric bypass surgery, they used Dermabond on her 5 laparascopy incisions and the healing was very impressive.
Nice nomenclature. Took me a second, but makes sense now.
How about Bandaid’s liquid bandage stuff? We keep it in our first aid kit for times when a bandaid would get in the way- it’s great for paper cuts since those are often on the finger tips…
medical type advice is proscribed here as far as I can remember. there was a shit fite about it some time a ago.
so, mitch, i will resist temptation and simply offer condolences for your naked Ma and Pa.
I didn’t know about this stuff, so I looked it up – Band-Aid Liquid Bandage. It’s a CA glue from Johnson and Johnson, the same folks who make Dermabond (but it’s not Dermabond). It’s probably better for you than that oily, sawdust-encrusted tube of Super Glue that’s been sitting for two years in the drawer under the microwave buried under the batteries, tape and pliers
Has it improved your reception?
Try that liquid stuff that is like a bandaid, I remember I had a bandaid on once, and my clairnet sounded aweful, it took me a while to realize it was because of a bandaid.
Arghis right.
Only so far as questions about organic and mental illnesses and suggested treatment opinions go. In the case of abrasions, joint pains from playing, breath issues, dry mouth or annoying salivation, etc., Dale himself has let us know that practical suggestions such as posture, grip, and bandaging in some instances -as well as discussing what one drinks or snacks on- are acceptable.
Might seem arbitrary to some, but let’s take advantage! 
Oh, yeah: organ donation’s out, too. Unless we’re talking about diapasons and such.
Does it look good? Is this something we should try? What kind of whistle is it?
[quote=“Mitch”]I just sanded all the skin of my G and A on a belt sander!
Looks like Oz whistles didn’t work out and it’s back to safecracking?
Liquid Bandage… works wonders. I use it when it’s been too long between gigs when I play bass and need to fend off the otherwise guaranteed blisters. It works!!! No bulky bandages, no blood and oose, no problems… well… except… be sure to apply it out of doors, as the fumes are enough to choke a horse! 
Sit back, chong on bong for a while and before you know it several very nice pain free weeks will have passed and your fingers will be much better. 
… of course… your chops will have suffered and several close friends and family will have chucked you out into the street… but.. hey.. you won’t care all that much. 
I’ll put in a further recommendation for Liquid Band-Aid. Not from personal experience, though. I recently spent three hours on an airplane with Al Stewart, a wonderful guitarist, and when I asked what he’d done to his thumb, he told me he’d roughed up the skin through over-use and just coated it with LBA. Neat stuff. If it’s good enough for him…
Jef
Hey guys - I realy appreciate all the great tips! So do my finger tips!
The spray-on liquid bandaid did the trick - that and a day or 2 with elastoplast silver oxide strips to kill the oportunists. My embellishments are no longer over-layed with expletives
I think of what might have happened if I had actually glued my whistle to my forehead - I would then have need of about a foot of surgical tubing to play! great stage stunt tho … hmmm, I’ve still got some glue here somewhere in the drawer under the microwave amongst the cockroach nests under the pliers with the leaky batteries and the handle of that funny screwdriver thing that I lost a few years ago …