Originally Posted by: schmangeWash your hands before you play and wipe down the strings and fretboard afterwards.
Buy a temperature/humidity guage and see what the readings are for your house.
If it's over 50% humidity for an extended period of time, get a humidifier.
Generally during winter it should be about 25 - 30% (more like 20 - 25 if you have electric heat) During summer it'll probably be in the 40 - 50% range.
Try to keep the heat at 72 - 75 deg.
what about if you live in california, and in the summer, the humidity is next to nothing? though we do have the air conditioner on all day, so it does stay in a pretty constant 75 degrees.