The Quest for the Ideal Piano Technician Automobile

[Farrell]

IMHO, the Prius works great. I can easily fit a large grand action and all my tools in the back with the seat folded down. When you don't have an action back there, the Prius has a pretty fair bit of room - it is closer to a mid-sized car rather than a compact. We've had our Prius for 16 months now and have an average fuel mileage of 53 mpg.

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barbara Richmond 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:02 PM
  Subject: Re: The Quest for the Ideal Piano Technician Automobile


  Kurt,

  There was a discussion of this just last month.  Go to the ptg list archives, select pianotech and then select April.  The subject is car mileage.

  Have fun.  I think our next one might be a Prius.

  Barbara Richmond, RPT
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: kurt baxter 
    To: Pianotech List 
    Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 7:57 PM
    Subject: The Quest for the Ideal Piano Technician Automobile


    My beloved VW hatchback (with back seat removed for bountiful action cradle space)
    is starting to feel its age and 188,000 miles and I am pondering what I will do when it 
    finally goes to the great big salvage yard in the sky... 

    In your opinions, what is the all time best suited car for piano work? 
    Including, most vitally: 

    ---Easy transport of grand and upright actions 
    ---Room for needed tools
    ---Decent gas mileage 



    (Also, I was eying a Honda Insight the other day, and was wondering if
    any ambitious tech out there has tried to fit an action in one of those
    gasoline sippers... Maybe in the back hatch with the passenger seat 
    all the way forward? Am I totally deluding myself?)



    Highly subjective opinions welcome.


     [k]urt






                                      

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