[pianotech] tool cases

[David Ilvedson]

Now that would be a great Journal article.   We haven't heard from Yat Lam Hong in awhile.
You should recommend he take pictures and write up an artice to show how it works.   I like it.   As long as you have elevators... '-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Gerald Groot" <tunerboy3 at comcast.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 4/15/2010 7:05:23 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] tool cases


>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