Fruitvale Road
Marimba tune, then an apple bite.
- E-WEast-West lineO-WOnehunga-West line
- West family
- Guitar signature
Why Fruitvale Road sounds like this
A wooden marimba bounces along over a walking bass, then someone takes a crisp bite of an apple. Fruitvale sits on the edge of the orchard belt that once covered West Auckland, around Glen Eden and Oratia. The trees are long gone, but the name still carries the fruit, and the bite is for it.
Inside the chime
Fruitvale Road's chime runs about 4 seconds, in two parts. Every station's chime ends on its family's signature, so you can tell roughly where you are by ear.
- 1
Fruitvale Road's own motif 2.5 s
Marimba tune, then an apple bite. No other station plays it.
- 2
The West family's guitar 1.0 s
Three plucked guitar notes climbing a major chord. It covers the western suburbs.
On the network
The West family
13 stations end on the guitar: Kingsland out to Swanson.