Klarinet Archive - Posting 000759.txt from 2002/01

From: "Kenneth Wolman" <kenneth.wolman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! Mastercard Clarinet
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:33:07 -0500

> OUCH!!!!!!!! Did you see the new Mastercard Commercial???? It
> talks about
> Clarinet lessons costing $30, more Clarinet lessons costing $30
> and the cost
> of switching to tambourine.......... - priceless.
>
> Jeez........
>
> David Blumberg
> http://artists.toptempo.com

THIRTY DOLLARS? Where? Kandahar? In 1998 I talked to Charles Russo about
private lessons and he said "Eighty bucks an hour." He then he made some
comment about being the best there is and that he's worth it. Other people
in the New York area who are less egotistical nevertheless were in the same
price range. The least expensive I talked to was Bonnie Sholl, who was
asking $50. There probably are people who charge a lot more than what Russo
was getting.

You know who gets thirty an hour? Bagpipe teachers. No kidding. Sometimes
as little as twenty. A lot of the old-timers consider that they are passing
on a sacred tradition and they're almost apologetic about asking for money
at all. But as with anything else, you don't appreciate what you've got--or
work at it--unless you're asked to pay something.

Ken
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Kenneth Wolman http://www.kenwolman.com
"...perhaps forgiveness is a process more than an emotion, perhaps it's
meant to
make us discover those other conditions within ourselves, love, belief in
love, to
which forgiveness itself is incidental..."--C. K. Williams, "Misgivings"

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