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Glen Innes

Lo-fi beat and electric piano.

  • E-W
  • East family
  • Log drum signature

Why Glen Innes sounds like this

A soft, swung lo-fi beat with a little vinyl crackle, under warm electric-piano chords. Dave Dobbyn grew up in Glen Innes, and at Sacred Heart College nearby he and two schoolmates formed Th' Dudes. The crackle is for the records that came before, and the beat is for the headphones now, walking Te Ara ki Uta ki Tai, the shared path that starts at the station.

Inside the chime

Glen Innes'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. 1

    Glen Innes's own motif 3.5 s

    Lo-fi beat and electric piano. No other station plays it.

  2. 2

    The East family's log drum 0.7 s

    Two log-drum strikes, high then low, each with a wooden note on top. It starts at Ōrākei, the first stop east of the tunnel, and runs down to Sylvia Park.

On the network

ŌrākeiMeadowbankGlen InnesYou are herePanmure

The East family

5 stations end on the log drum: Ōrākei down to Sylvia Park.