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New Lynn

Crockery clinking up a scale.

  • E-WO-W
  • West family
  • Guitar signature

Why New Lynn sounds like this

Crockery clinks, climbing and stepping back, then two pieces ring together. Crown Lynn Potteries made New Zealand's everyday crockery in New Lynn for four decades, and its cups, plates and swan vases are still in kitchens and op shops across the country. The chime is a shelf of it, tapped.

Inside the chime

New Lynn's chime runs about 3 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

    New Lynn's own motif 2.0 s

    Crockery clinking up a scale. No other station plays it.

  2. 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

Baldwin AvenueMt AlbertAvondaleNew LynnYou are hereFruitvale RoadGlen Eden

The West family

13 stations end on the guitar: Kingsland out to Swanson.