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
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