Hi David, You reminded me of something I thought was pretty clever and very cool when you mentioned practice rooms etc. When I was visiting with Yat Lam Hong a week or two ago, we met at his office in Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo where he of course, services the pianos. I was pretty impressed with how he carried things around his school. First, he had a BIG bag filled with tools and and various items. Things separated by color coded pouches. He got this bag and other things too from Harbor Freight. The same web site I sent earlier today to William. Inexpensive things there but, good stuff he says. I've never been in one and we have one here in town.. Gotta go soon! Anyway. For example, in one color coded pouch, he has all of his tuning tools. Anything tuning related such as mutes, felts, tuning hammer etc. The pouch zips up and is relatively small yet, large enough to fit what he wants into it. In a different colored pouch, he carries nothing but stringing tools and stringing related items. In another colored pouch, he had regulation tools. In yet another, he carried a variety of punchings. All in their own separate containers of course. Yat Lam then made himself a table something like oh, I don't know, probably about 2' wide and about 4' long and about 4' high or so. It even has shelves on it. It has drawers too. It has cupboard doors down below that click and snap shut so the crap doesn't fall out in transit. In the cupboards, he placed piano strings and other stuff. I didn't get a chance to see it all. On the bottom, he had installed double wheeled piano castor's for easy rolling around. Prior to leaving his office, he loads it up with whatever he thinks he might need and then just wheels it all over the place from room to room eliminating completely carrying anything around. Pretty clever idea, one I had not thought of for my college of 90 pianos. One certainly worth looking into for sure. I know, I know. I too, have a car full of crap that half of the time, I hardly ever use but have.JUST IN CASE........... It will be there. That is, until I need it. Then I realize, I just put it into my shop because I hadn't used it in 5 years.. Jer From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Brown Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:58 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] tool cases Gerald- I couldn't agree more. It can be a lot to carry, but the wheels make it easier for floor after floor of practice rooms, studios, rehearsal rooms and the like. It always seems when I decide to run across the road with a lever, mutes and some regulating tools that that is when I need something from deeper in the kit and end up making two trips anyway. My colleagues in Austin always gave me a hard time about the amount of stuff in my car, but 12 years of rural service prior to that taught me I couldn't fix something correctly and make the $ if I did not have the right tool .To each his own! David David C. Brown Arizona State University School of Music Piano Technician 1-480-965-6760 david.c.brown.2 at asu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100415/aad7cfef/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/png Size: 8583 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100415/aad7cfef/attachment-0001.png>
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